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INTRODUCTION. 


The  clause  in  the  will  of  Senator  Anthony  which  refers  to  his  gift  of 
"The  Harris  Collection  of  American  Poetry  "  to  the  Library  of  Brown 
University,  reads  as  follows  : 

"  I  give  to  the  Library  of  Bi'own  University  the  collection  of  American 
poetry  which  I  have  recently  bought  of  the  estate  of  my  late  cousin,  Caleb 
F.  Harris,  and  which,.  I  am  told,  is  the  best  collection  extant.  I  request 
that  it  be  kept  together,  and  that  over  the  alcove  in  which  it  is  placed, 
there  be  an  inscription  in  Latin  by  Professor  Lincoln  :  "  The  Harris  Col- 
lection of  American  Poetry ;  commenced  hy  Albert  G.  Greene^  continued  by 
Caleb  Fiskc  Harris  and  Henry  B.  Anthony.  By  the  latter  ■presented  to  this 
Library." 

As  soon  as  the  necessary  arrangements  were  made,  the  collection  was 
removed,  shortly  after  the  death  of  Mr.  Anthony,  to  the  Library  Building 
of  the  University  and  placed  in  a  cheerful  room,  fitted  for  its  reception, 
where,  doubtless,  itAvill  remain  as  long  as  the  building  stands.  Li  accord- 
ance with  the  Avishes  of  the  generous  donor,  the  following  Latin  inscription, 
prepared  by  Prof.  John  Larkin  Lincoln,  LL.D.,  and  printed  in  plain  black 
capitals,  occupies  a  conspicuous  position  on  the  southeastern  wall  of  "  The 
Harris  Collection  Room  :  " 


POESIS  AMERICANA  HARRISIANA 

QVAM  AB  ALBERTO  GORTON  GREENE  INCOHATAM 

ET  A   CALEB  FISKE   HARRIS  MAXIME  AYCTAM 

VNICE  A  SE  PERFECTAM 

HYIC   BIBLIOTHECAE  TESTAMENTO   LEGAVIT 

HENRICVS  BOWEN  ANTHONY 


90SC95 


IV  1  NTHO  1)U  or  ION. 

This  inscription  contjiiiis,  in  briet",  a  history  of  this  altogether  unique 
anil  remarkable  eoUection  of  American  Poetry,  and,  at  this  point,  it  may 
not  be  necessary  to  give  its  details.  These  will  appear  as  we  present  the 
sketches  ot"  tlu'  livi's  of  tlic  three  individuals  who  were  especially  concerned 
in  the  t»)rmation,  enhirgement  and  cni-icliing  of  the  (;olle(!tion.  The 
sketches  are  as  follows  : 

Albert  Gokton  Greene. 

Albert  Gorton  Greene  was  born  in  Providence,  R.  I.,  February  10, 
1802,  and  was  a  son  of  John  H.  and  Elizabeth  (Beverly)  Greene.  Samuel 
Gorton,  who  is  represented  in  the  middle  name  of  Mr.  Greene,  was  one  of 
the  most  renuirkable  characters  in  the  annals  of  early  Rhode  Island  his- 
tory, and  the  story  of  his  experiences  with  the  authorities  of  the  "  Bay 
State  "  has  the  charm  and  the  fascination  of  a  romance.  The  ancestors 
of  Mr.  Greene  were  among  the  first  settlers  of  Warwick,  and  held  a  high 
rank  among  tlie  citizens  of  the  little  State  which  they  so  honorably  repre- 
sented in  many  departments  of  civil  and  social  life.  He  was  fitted  for 
college  in  the  University  Grammar  School,  Providence,  and  was  so  far 
advanced  in  his  preparatory  studies  as  to  be  qualified  to  enter  the  Soph- 
omore class  of  Brown  University  in  1817,  from  which  institution  he  grad- 
uated in  1820.  He  studied  law  with  the  distinguished  Hon.  John  Whip- 
ple, and  was  admitted  to  the  Rhode  Island  bar  in  1828,  and  commenced 
the  practice  of  his  profession  in  Providence.  After  a  few  years  of  faithful 
devotion  to  the  duties  of  his  vocation,  he  was  elected,  on  the  organization 
of  the  city  government  under  its  new  charter  in  1832,  clerk  of  the  City 
Council,  and  clerk  of  the  Municipal  Court,  holding  the  two  offices  for  some 
twenty-five  years  ;  at  the  end  of  which  period  he  was  chosen  Judge  of  the 
Municipal  Court,  and  occupied  this  position  for  not  far  from  nine  years, 
1858-G7.  The  state  of  his  health  was  such  that  in  1867  he  resigned  his 
office. 

Although  occupied  for  so  many  years  with  the  onerous  and  exacting 
duties  of  the  responsible  positions  he  occupied  and  so  acceptably  filled,  he 


INTRODUCTION.  V 

was  always  ''a  man  of  letters," — a  lover  of  good  books,  and  deeply  inter- 
ested hi  everything  connected  with  the  educational  interests  of  the  State  of 
which  he  was  a  native,  and  of  the  city  which  was  his  adopted  home.  The 
original  school  bill  of  Rhode  Island  was  drafted  by  his  skillful  hand.  For 
fourteen  years  he  was  the  honored  President  of  the  Rhode  Island  Histori- 
cal Society.  In  the  founding  of  the  Providence  Athenaeum  he  took  an 
active  and  conspicuous  part.  He  early  began  to  lay  the  foundation  of  a 
collection  of  American  poetry  which  was  acknowledged  to  be  without  a 
rival,  in  the  variety  of  the  authors  represented,  and  in  the  value  of  the 
books  collected.  In  ''  the  still  air  of  delightful  studies"  he  found  a  happy 
relief  from  the  too  often  vexatious  cares  and  annoyances  of  his  pro- 
fessional life,  and  his  library  was  the  choice  place  to  which  he  was  never 
weary  of  resorting,  that  he  might  enjoy  the  companionship  of  the  select 
spirits  who,  at  his  bidding,  were  so  ready  to  be  the  friends  of  his  quiet  but 
not  lonely  hours. 

Judge  Greene  was  himself  a  poet,  and  would  have  gained  deserved  dis- 
tinction had  he  given  himself  more  than  ho  did  to  the  work  of  original  com- 
position. It  is  hardly  necessary  to  say  that  he  was  the  author  of  one  of  the 
quaintest  and  most  popular  ballads  of  the  day.  Who  has  not  read,  and 
smiled  as  he  read, — 

"  Old  Grimes  is  dead  ;  that  good  old  man 
We  never  shall  see  more : 
He  used  to  wear  a  long,  black  coat. 
All  button'd  down  before  "  — 

a  ballad  which,  in  our  college  days,  we  used  to  sing  so  lustily  to  the  good 
old  tune  of  "Auld  Lang  Syne."  But  as  "John  Gilpin  "  gives  us  only  one 
side,  and  that  side  a  very  partial  one,  of  the  real  character  of  Cowper,  so 
"Old  Grimes"  is  to  be  looked  upon  as  a  pleasant  jVh  d^ esprit  of  one  whose 
thoughts  usually  ran  in  channels  quite  different  from  what  we  might  sup- 
pose, if  we  judged  him  solely  by  his  famous  liallad.  How  tender  and 
beautiful  is  his  "  Adelheid  "  : 


Vi  INTKO  nUC'TlON. 

"Why  dnii)i»  the  sorrowing  trees, 
kSwayed  by  the  autumn  breeze, 
Heavy  with  rain '.' 
Drearily,  wearily, 
Move  as  in  i)ain'.' 
Weeping  and  sighing, 
They  ever  seem  crying, 
'Adelheid!  Adelheidl'  evening  and  morn: 
'Adelheid!  Adelheid!  where  has  she  gone '? ' 

"  With  their  ai-ms  bending  there, 
In  the  cold  winter  air. 
Icy  and  chill, 
Trembling  and  glistening. 
Watching  and  listening. 
Awaiting  her  still. 
With  the  snow  round  their  feet. 
Still  they  the  name  repeat  — 
'  Adelheid  I  Adelheid !  here  is  her  home : 
'  Adelheid !  Adelheid  I  when  will  she  come '? ' 

"With  the  warm  breath  of  spring 
Now  the  foliage  is  stirr'd  ; 
'     On  the  pathway  below  them 
A  footstep  is  heard. 
Now  bent  gently  o'er  her, 
How  joyous  the  greeting 
Now  waving  before  her 
Each  sound  seems  repeating  — 
'Adelheid  I  Adelheid  I  welcome  again.' 
Their  branches  upspringing. 
The  breeze  through  them  ringing, 
The  birds  through  them  singing. 
Unite  in  the  strain  — 
'Adelheid!  Adelheid!  welcome  again !' " 

Perhaps,  however,  the  poem  on  which,  were  he  living,  he  would 
prefer  to  stake  his  reputation,  and  wliich,  we  are  assured,  those  nearest 
to    him    most  aflfectionately   recall,  was    the    one  written   soon  after  the 


I N  T  R  O  D  U  C  T  I O  X  .  Vll 

death  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  William   E.   Cliauning.     The  occasion  for  Avhich 

this  ode  was  prepai-ed  was  a  eomnieinorat?ive  service  which  was  held  in  the 

Fii'st  Congregational  Church  in  Providence,  R.  I.,  October  12,  1842,  to  do 

honor   to    the   lately    deceased    Boston    clergyman.     The    discourse    was 

preached  by  the  pastor  of  the   church.  Rev.  Dr.  E.  B.  Hall,  whose  gifted 

wife  wrote  the  hymn  that  was   sung  on  the  occasion.     The  ode  by  Judge 

Greene  is  here  given  in  full : 

> 

"  Not  for  him,  but  for  us,  should  our  tears  be  shed ; 

Mourn,  mourn  for  the  living,  but  not  for  the  dead ; 

Let  the  dirge  be  unsiuig,  and  awaken  the  psalm  : 

No  cypress  for  him  who  lies  crowned  with  tiie  palm  ; 

Who  has  gone  to  his  rest 

When  his  labor  was  done. 

From  the  world  he  has  blest 

To  the  heaven  he  has  won. 

"  Though  the  light  of  his  life  to  our  vision  is  o'er. 
The  light  of  his  spirit  will  burn  evermore  ; 
For  truth  in  the  world,  like  the  sun  in  the  skies, 
Fades  only  to  brighten,  and  sets  but  to  rise. 
It  moves  ever  onward, 

Tliough  dimmed  is  its  ray  ; 
And  still  on  the  earth 
It  is  day,  —  ever  day. 

•'  How  calmly  he  uttered  liis  l)eautiful  thought ; 
How  meekly  he  bore  all  the  honors  it  brought ; 
How  bravely  he  spoke  to  oppression  and  wrong  ; 
In  that  calmness,  that  meekness,  that  courage,  how  strong ! 
Though  with  tears  for  his  parting 

Our  eyes  may  be  dim. 
For  ourselves  they  are  falling. 
Not  for  liim, — not  for  him. 

"  We  bless  thee,  O  God,  that  the  spirit  is  free, 
Which  was  true  to  itself,  unto  man  and  to  thee  ; 
Thou  hast  called  it  from  trial,  released  it  from  pain, 
But  its  life  and  its  teacliings  will  ever  remain. 


viii  INTRODUCTION. 

The  good  and  the  true 

Never  die, — never  die  ; 
'I'liough  gone,  they  are  here, 

Ever  nigh  — ever  nigh." 

Soon  after  rcsigninjj  liis  position  as  Judge  of  the  Municipal  Court,  in 
1867,  Mr.  Greene  removed  to  tlie  home  of  liis  daughter,  the  wife  of  the 
Rev.  Samuel  White  Duncan,  D.D.,  in  Cleveland,  Ohio,  Avhere  he  died 
.TaiHiary  4,  18(58.  For  a  deligliti'ul  tribute  to  the  memory  of  Judge 
Greene  from  the  pen  of  George  William  Curtis,  see  Harper's  Magazine, 
vol.  xxxvi..  p]i.  529,  530. 

Calef,  Fiske  Hakuis. 

Caleb  Fiske  Harris  was  born  in  Warwick,  R.  I.,  March  9,  1818.  He 
was  the  son  of  Stephen  Harris,  M.D.,  and  p]liza  (Greene),  a  daughter  of 
Capt.  James  Greene,  who  was  a  descendant  of  John  Greene,  an  associate 
of  Roger  Williams,  and  one  of  the  original  purchasers  of  Shawomet,  now 
called  Old  Warwick.  The  sister  of  Mrs.  Eliza  Greene  Harris  was  Mary 
Kinnicut  Greene,-  the  mother  of  Senator  Anthony.  The  early  Rhode  Island 
ancestor  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch  was  Thomas  Harris,  a  brother  of 
the  William  Harris,  with  reference  to  whom  Gov.  Arnold  says  ;  "  He 
liHed  a  large  space  in  the  early  history  of  the  colony  as  an  active,  deter- 
mined man,  resolute  in  mind  and  vigorous  in  body,  delighting  in  conflict, 
bold  in  his  views  on  the  political  dogmas  of  his  time,  fearless  in  his  mode 
of  expressing  them,  striking  always  forcibly  and  often  rashly  for  what  he 
believed  to  be  the  right,  and  denouncing  with  the  energy  of  a  concentrated 
intellect  all  men  or  measures  that  did  not  conform  to  his  ideas  of  truth  and 
justice.  No  man,  unless  it  be  Roger  Williams,  has  left  a  deeper  mark  upon 
the  record  of  his  State."  Thomas  Harris  was  born  in  England,  and  came 
to  this  country  and  settled  in  Salem,  Mass.,  removing,  about  the  year 
1G3G-7,  to  Providence.     As  his  name  does  not  appear  among  the  thirteen 


INTRODUCTION.  IX 

original  proprietors  of  Providence,  among  whom  was  his  brother  William, 
he  must  have  arrived  at  the  new  settlement  after  they  had  laid  the  founda- 
tion of  the  town  in  1636.  Caleb  Harris,  the  great-grandfather  of  Caleb 
Fiske  Harris,  was  u  man  of  acknowledged  ability,  and  for  a  time  was  a 
judge  of  one  of  the  courts  of  Providence.  Dr.  Stephen  Harris  was  edu- 
cated in  part  at  Brown  University,  the  death  of  his  father  preventing  him 
from  completing  the  prescribed  course  of  study.  He  pursued  his  medical 
studies  at  Dartmouth  College  and  with  Dr.  Fiske,  of  Scituate,  and  settled 
at  the  place  now  called  Quidnick.  The  wife  of  Dr.  Harris,  as  has  been 
intimated,  was  Eliza  Greene,  to  whom  he  was  married  December  3,  1809. 
Subsequently  he  removed  to  Centreville,  R.  I.,  and  engaged  in  manufactur- 
ing, besides  discharging  tlie  duties  of  his  profession.  His  business  partners 
were  Resolved  Waterman  and  Dr.  Sylvester  Knight.  The  former,  who 
died  July  8,  1886,  would  have  reached  the  great  age  of  one  hundred 
years  had  he  lived  to  December  10,  1887.  Mrs.  Harris,  the  mother  of 
Caleb  F.,  died  March  23,  1820,  Avlien  her  son  was  a  little  more  than 
two  years  of  age,  and  his  father,  the  Doctor,  died  October  10,  1858, 
aged  72.  As  was  said  of  him:  "He  was  a  remarkable  man  in  some 
respects.  He  Avas  bold  in  larger  affairs  as  he  was  cautious  in  minu- 
tiae His  promise  was  slowly  given,  but  the  fulfillment  of  it,  however  dif- 
ficult, was  so  faithful  as  to  be  pi'overbiul.  He  was  practical,  but  progres- 
sive ;  cautious,  bxit  self-confident ;  resolute,  but  never  infatuated.  He  was 
a  lover  of  money,  but  he  loved  truth  and  integrity  as  aids  to  character,  as 
well  as  money.  The  excitements  of  business  stimulated  all  the  energies 
of  his  body  and  mind,  withdrawing  the  latter  from  a  profession  in  which 
he  must  have  been  distinguished,  and  taxing  the  former,  which  was  natu- 
rally feelde,  with  incessant  occupation.  The  objects  of  his  ambition  were 
commercial,  and  he  fully  reached  them.  He  was  beloved  in  private  and 
respected  in  public." 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  pursued  his  preparatory  studies  at  the  Acad- 
emy in  Kingston,  R.  I.,  and  entered  Brown  University  in  1834.     The  class 
of  which  he  was  a  member  stands  high  among  the  classes  of  the  University 
2 


X  I  N  T  K  O  ])  U  C  T 1 C)  N . 

tor  tlu'  minilx'r  and  tlio  character  of  the  men  wlio  luive  acliioved  success 
and  lionorable  distinction  in  the  callings  of  life  to  wliicli  they  have  devoted 
tluMusolves.  Mr.  Harris  did  not  complete  the  full  course  of  college  study. 
From  liis  father  he  inherited  a  love  for  business,  the  stir  and  excitement  of 
which  were,  in  his  early  manhood,  more  congenial  with  his  tastes  than  were 
the  (|uiet  pursuits  of  a  literary  life.  After  leaving  the  University  he  went 
to  New  York  and  engaged  in  the  commission  business,  the  firm  being 
Franklin  &  Harris,  afterwards  Franklin,  Harris  &  Mott,  and  finally  C.  F. 
Harris.  In  1850  he  removed  to  Providence  and  continued  to  be  interested 
in  business,  and  so  remained  till  the  war.  Gradually  he  closed  up  his 
aflairs  and  I'etired  on  a  generous  fortune,  occupying  a  spacious  and  well- 
appointed  mansion  on  Waterman  street,  not  far  from  the  University. 

At  precisely  what  time  in  the  life  of  Mr.  Harris  was  developed  that 
remarkable  love  for  books  which  became  so  absorbing  a  passion  with  him, 
the  writer  of  this  sketch  is  unable  to  state.  It  is  not  unlikely  it  was  a 
thing  of  gradual  growth,  gaining  in  strength,  as  do  all  human  passions, 
by  what  it  fed  upon.  Like  Judge  Greene,  he  took  a  deep  interest  in  the 
collection  of  the  works  of  American  poets,  and  in  all  matters  pertaining  to 
early  American  history.  Old  and  rare  books  he  sought  after,  and  the 
collectors  in  this  country  and  abroad  found  him  one  of  their  warmest 
friends.  His  pressing  orders  for  their  literary  treasures  were  cheerfully 
responded  to  ;  and,  perhaps,  all  the  more  so  since  no  exorbitant  value  which 
they  might  place  upon  a  coveted  volume  was  any  bar  to  its  purchase  if  he 
set  his  mind  on  having  it.  At  one  time,  while  travelling  in  France,  his 
niece  being  his  companion  (a  lady  who  spoke  the  language  with  ease, 
Avhich  he  did  not  do,  although  he  read  French  without  difliculty),  he  found 
himself  in  Lyons,  in  the  bookstore  of  an  old  Jew.  A  beautiful  "  missal" 
was  shoAvn  him,  which  proved  so  attractive  that  he  made  up  his  mind  that 
he  must  have  it.  In  reply  to  the  question  of  his  niece  as  to  its  price,  so 
large  a  sum  was  named  by  its  owner  that  Mr.  Harris,  accustomed  although 
he  was  to  pay  what  others  Avould  regard  as  extravagant  prices  for  books, 
hesitated,  and    finally  left    the    store,  the    precious  volume    unpurchased. 


INTRODUCTION.  XI 

Some  hours  after  he  told  his  niece  to  prepare  herself  for  a  second  interview 
with  the  Israelite,  for  he  was  bound  to  have  that  volume,  cost  what  it 
might.  Back  to  the  shop  they  retraced  their  steps.  The  bai-gain  was 
made.  The  full  price  charged  was  paid,  and  the  prize  was  his.  In 
various  ways  Mr.  Harris  had  thus  collected  a  valuable  library  Avhich,  as 
has  been  said,  was  especially  rich  in  American  poetry  and  plays.  Soon 
after  the  decease  of  Judge  Greene,  January  3,  1868,  one  thousand  volumes 
of  his  library,  none  of  them  duplicates  of  his  own  books,  were  purchased 
by  Mr.  Harris.  So  rapidly  did  this  special  department  of  American  poe- 
try grow,  that  in  1874  it  numbei'ed  4,129  separate  works,  including  various 
editions,  and  up  to  the  time  of  the  death  of  its  owner,  the  increase  was 
not  less  than  one  t^iousand  volumes.  In  1874,  Mr.  Harris  printed  a  vol- 
mne  of  goodly  size,  entitled  '•'•Index  to  American  Poetry  and  Plays  in 
the  Collection  of  C.  Fiske  Harris."  This  volume  was  sent  to  his  personal 
friends  and  others,  lovers  of  good  books,  and  elicited  some  correspondence 
to  which  it  may  not  be  out  of  place  to  allude  a  little  in  detail. 
The  following  was  written  by  Mr.  Bryant  : 

"New  Yokk,  March  12,  1875. 

"  Dear  Sir  :  —  Your  work,  Index  to  American  Poetry  and  Plays,  has  amazed 
me  by  showing  me  what  multitudes  of  persons  on  our  side  of  the  Atlantic  have 
wasted  their  time  in  writing  verses  in  our  language. 

"  I  do  not  know  that  lean  offer  any  suggestions  of  any  value  for  the  improvement 
of  your  work.  It  seems  to  me  very  full,  and  must  have  cost  you  much  labor.  You 
have,  of  course,  consulted  Allibone's  Dictionary  of  Authors,  in  which  is  a  good  deal 
of  information  concerning  editions. 

"As  to  my  publications,  you  have  omitted  one  or  more.  There  was  one  edition 
published  in  London  of  my  poems  — Andrews,  the  publisher,  I  think  in  1832  — a 
duodecimo  volume,  and  I  am  pretty  sure  that  I  have  in  the  country  a  small  edition 
published  in  Liverpool.  But  my  books  are  mostly  in  the  country,  on  Long  Island, 
When  T  get  there,  if  I  can  think  of  it,  I  will  write  you  to  help  you  complete  your 
list  so  far  as  my  poems  are  concerned,  Init  I  may  not  remember  to  do  it. 

"  Yours  respectfully, 

"W.  C.  BRYANT." 


Ml  INTRODUCTION. 

A.<  tlio  oilitioDs  rot'erred  to  do  not  soem  to  be  in  "  Tlic  Harris  Collec- 
tion," witliout  doubt  Mr.  Bryant  did  ''  not  remember  to  do  it." 

J.  Munsell,  tlie  distinguislied  })riiiter  and  publislier  of  Albany,  N.  Y., 
writes  under  date  of  February  24,  1875  :  "  I  have  the  pk'asure  to  acknowl- 
edge  tlic  receipt  of  your  extensive  Catalogue  of  American  Poetry  and 
Plays.  I  tliank  you  for  your  courtesy,  and  observiiig  tliat  you  do  not  have 
a  little  privately  printed  translation  of  Laus  Patriae  Celesfis,  by  O.  A. 
Morse,  I  enclose  a  copy  to  add  a  mite  to  your  collection."  Mr.  M.  alludes 
also  to  one  or  two  other  works,  not  in  tlie  "Collection,"  to  which  he 
directs  the  attention  of  Mr.  Harris,  and  closes  his  note  by  again  thanking 
him  for  his  kindness. 

Samuel  G.  Drake  writes  under  date,  Boston,  February  26,  1875:  "I 
have  just  received  your  very  beautifully  printed  '  Index  to  American  Poe- 
try and  Plays.'  I  had  reason  to  believe  you  possessed  a  very  large  collec- 
tion of  works  in  that  department  of  American  literature,  but  was  not  pre- 
pared to  find  you  had  such  an  immense  body  of  poetry.  Topsy  said,  when 
she  heard  a  large  amount  of, money  was  paid  on  some  occasion,  'she 
didn't  believe  it,  'cos  ther  wasn't  so  much  money  in  the  whole  world. 
Now,  really,  I  didn't  think  there  was  so  much  poetry  by  Americans  in  the 
whole  world.  Accept  my  thanks  for  your  kindness  in  allowing  me  to  place 
in  my  collection  a  copy  of  your  exceedingly  valuable  volume." 

The  Hon.  William  L.  Appleton  writes  from  Boston,  February  26,  1875  : 
"I  have  your  bibliography  of  American  Poetry,  for  which  accept  my 
thanks."  He  then  gives  him  the  names  of  the  authors  of  certain  books  to 
the  titles  of  whicli  an  interrogation  mark  had  been  pi'efixed,  indicating 
tliat  Mr.  Harris  did  not  know  Avho  they  were,  and  closes  by  saying:  "  I 
will  some  day  send  you  a  list  as  complete  as  possible  of  all  in  my  library 
which  does  not  appear  in  your  Index." 

Lemuel  L.  Boardman,  Esq.,  sends  the  following  from  Augusta,  Me., 
under  date  of  March  25,  1875  :  "Accept  my  thanks  for  a  .copy  of  your 
'Index  to  American  Poetry,' the  receipt  of  which   is   gratefully  acknowl- 


INTRODUCTION.  xiii 

edged.      You  liave  a  wonderful  collection,  and   I  trust  you  may  be    able  at 
some  day  to  print  a  full  catalogue  as  you  propose." 

Dr.  Samuel  A.  Green  writes  from  Boston,  February  26,  1875  :  '•  I 
write  to  thank  you  for  the  copy  of  the  '  Index,'  which  reached  nie  yester- 
day. It  will  he  to  me  a  very  useful  book,  and  I  shall  prize  it  very  hiyhly. 
The  class  poem  No.  730  was  by  James  Russell  Lowell."  Dr.  Grreen  goes 
on  to  inform  Mr.  Harris  with  regard  to  the  authorship  of  other  volumes 
whose  titles  are  in  the  "Index." 

John  Ward  Dean  writes  from  the  Society  House  of  the  New  P^ngland 
Historic  Genealogical  Society,  18  Somerset  street,  Boston,  February  27, 
1875:  "  I  thank  you  heartily  for  the  beautiful  and  well  arranged  volume 
which  you  have  had  the  kindness  to  present  me  with.  To  collect  such  a 
vast  collection  of  American  poetry  must  have  cost  you  a  great  amount  of 
labor,  and  it  shows  you  are  an  indefatigable  woi-ker.  T  hope  the  tastefully 
arranged  index  to  your  collection  may  help  you  to  add  to  its  riches,  and 
assist  in  procuring  biographical  information  about  the  writei-s  of  this  poe- 
try for  your  proposed  Catalogue." 

Charles  Deane,  Esq.,  writes  from  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society 
Rooms,  March  1,  1875,  thanking  Mr.  Harris  very  warmly  for  a  copy  of 
his   "Judex." 

George  H.  Moore,  of  the  Lenox  Library,  New  York,  September  G,  1875, 
writes  :  "I  am  afraid  that  in  the  multitude  of  my  pressing  duties,  I  have 
omitted  to  express  to  you  my  grateful  sense  of  obligation  for  your  polite 
attention  in  sending  me  a  copy  of  your  very  interesting  and  valuable  '  Index 
to  American  Poetry  and  Plays.'  I  can  only  say  now,  as  I  thank  you  very 
sincerely,  that  I  shall  be  only  glad  to  contribute  in  any  way  in  my  power 
to  promote  your  design." 

J.  Hammond  Trumbull  writes  from  Hartford,  March  2,  1875  :  "  T  am 
very  much  obliged  to  you  for  the  copy  you  are  so  kind  as  to  send  to  me  of 
your  valuable  and  elegant  '  Index  to  American  Poetry  and  Plays.'  Hav- 
ing received  it  only  within  t\n'  last  hour,  I  have  not  yet  had  time  for  more 
than  a  glance."      Mr.  T.  proceeds  to  give  information  about  cei-tain  anony- 


XIV  INTRODUCTION. 

mous  writers,  and  makes  this  interesting  statement  with  regard  to  the 
autlior  of  "Federalism  Trinmphant,"  wliieli  he  says  was  wi'itten  "by 
Leonard  Chester  (graduate  of  Yale,  ITfiK — d.  1803),  as  I  know  by  an 
autograph  letter  of  his  in  my  possession.  The  authorship  was  carefully 
eoneealed,  and  until  now  has,  I  think,  been  unknown  except  to  myself  in 
this  generation." 

S.  Austin  Allibone  writes  from  Philadelphia,  April  12,  1875  :  "Please 
accept  my  thanks  for  the  copy  of  your  Index  to  American  Poetry  which 
you  were  so  kind  as  to  send  me." 

It  would  be  easy  to  add  to-  the  foregoing,  other  letters  in  wliich  the  wri- 
ters return  their  thanks  to  Mr.  Harris  for  sending  to  them  copies  of  his 
"  Index."  They  furnish  sufficient  evidence  of  the  great  interest  taken  by 
the  most  distinguished  bibliophiles  in  the  country  in  the  work  to  Avhich, 
with  so  much  enthusiasm,  Mr.  Harris  devoted  some  of  the  best  years  of 
his  life.  This  interest  would  have  been  greatly  increased  could  they  have 
known  what  he  could  tell  them  about  the  more  than  one  thousand  volumes 
he  added  to  his  collection  after  the  publication  of  the  "  Index."  Some  of  the 
rarest  treasures  of  the  collection  came  into  his  possession  after  1874,  and 
are  now  classified,  and  notes  on  very  many  of  them  published  in  this  Cata- 
logue. 

It  remains  only  to  say  that  the  zeal  of  Mr.  Harris  in  the  gratification  of 
his  passion  for  books  in  the  department  wiiich  he  had  made  a  specialty 
knew  no  abatement  down  to  the  close  of  his  life.  His  death  w^as  sudden, 
and  was  caused  by  drowning,  as  the  result  of  the  upsetting  of  a  boat  in 
which  only  himself  and  Mrs.  Harris  were  sailing  on  Moosehead  Lake,  in 
the  State  of  Maine,  the  sad  event  occurring  October  2,  1881,  both  of  the 
parties  sharing  a  common  fate. 


I N  T  R  O  D  U  C  T  1 0  X .  xv 


Henry  Bowen  Anthony. 


Henry  Bowen  Antliony,  a  lineal  descendant  of  John  Anthony,  of  Hemp- 
stead, England,  who  came  to  Boston  in  1634,  and  to  Rhode  Island  in 
1640,  was  born  in  Coventry,  R.  I.,  in  the  county  of  Providence,  April 
1,  1815.  His  parents  were  exemplary  members  of  the  Society  of  Friends, 
for  which  religious  community  he  always  cherished,  through  life,  a 
sincere  respect  and  esteem,  his  own  thoughts  on  sacred  subjects  being,  in 
a  good  degree,  in  harmony  witli  the  Quaker  faith  in  wliicli  he  was  reared. 
Having  pursued  his  preparatory  studies  chiefly  in  a  private  school  in  Prov- 
idence, he  entered  Brown  University  in  1829,  and  was  graduated  in  the 
class  of  1833.  For  a  few  years  after  leaving  college  he  was  associated 
with  his  brother  in  manufacturing  business,  a  part  of  each  year  being  spent 
in  Savannah,  Ga.  The  vocation,  however,  did  not  accord  with  his  tastes 
which  had  been  developed  and  matured  in  his  college  career,  and  he  decided 
to  turn  his  attention  to  journalism.  At  the  early  age  of  twenty-three,  in 
the  year  1838,  he  became  the  editor  of  the  Providence  Journal,  devoting 
to  it  the  best  energies  of  a  cultured  intellect,  and  bringing  to  the  pertbrm- 
ance  of  the  onerous  duties  which  devolved  on  him,  a  determination  to  meet 
the  demands  of  readers  representing  all  classes  in  the  community,  and  to 
furnish  for  their  daily  perusal,  a  paper  that  should  not  only  awaken  their 
interest,  but  command  their  sincere  respect  and  their  hearty  support. 

The  time  Avhen  Mr.  Anthony  entered  upon  his  work  as  a  journalist  was 
one  of  the  most  important  and  exciting  periods  in  Rhode  Island  history, 
and  the  position  of  the  editor  of  the  leading  paper  of  the  State  was  one  of 
great  delicacy  and  great  difficulty.  The  events  coiniected  with  what  is 
known  as  the  ''Dorr  Rebellion  "  are  too  familiar  to  need  to  ])e  recited  in  a 
sketch  necessarily  so  limited  as  this.  In  the  language  of  Prof.  AVilliam 
Gammell,  who,  in  more  ways  tlian  one,  has  rendered  such  ample  justice  to 
the  rare  abilities  and  the  marked  accomplishments  of  iiis  college  friend.  Mr. 


XVI  INTRODUCTION. 

Antlioiiy  "  was  obliged  daily  to  discuss  the  tundamental  priiieiples  of  Ainer- 
ieati  i;i)veniineiit,  wliicli  were  then  far  less  settled  tluui  tliey  are  at  present, 
ami  to  set  forth  and  urge  upon  public  attention  the  only  mode  in  which  the 
constitution  of  a  State  can  be  changed  without  peril  to  all  social  interests 
and  rights.  During  the  whole  of  this  excited  period,  the  Journal  wielded 
a  commanding  influence.  Its  editorial  columns  Avere  marked  by  signal 
ability  and  judgment,  and  the  services  which  it  rendered  to  the  cause  of 
constitutional  government  were  gratefully  acknowjiedged  by  the  people  of 
the  State  as  I'eflecting  the  highest  credit  on  its  youthful  editor  and  manager. 
It  was  by  him  that  its  position  among  the  journals  of  New  England  was 
secured,  that  its  principles  and  purposes  were  detined,  and  its  reputation 
established.  He  did  for  it  a  work  similar  to  that  which  we  connect  with 
the  names  of  Hale,  of  Bryant,  of  Greeley  and  of  Raymond,  for  the  great 
journals  which  they  severally  created  and  conducted.  Whatever  advantage 
or  distinction  it  then  acquired  was  due  to  his  versatile  genius  and  to  his 
rare  ability  as  a  writer  for  the  press." 

The  citizens  of  Rhode  Island,  recognizing  the  skill  and  wisdom  with 
which  the  youthful  journalist  had  carried  on  the  discussions  which  were  so 
iutluential  in  the  vindication  and  maintenance  of  the  great  principles  of 
"  law  and  order,"  called  him  to  the  highest  position  to  which  their  suf- 
fratfes  could  elect  him,  and,  in  1849,  he  was  chosen  Governor  of  the  Com- 
monwealth, an  honor  which  was  repeated  in  1850.  He  would  have  been 
continued  in  Office  but  for  his  positive  declinature  of  the  position.  Mean- 
while, he  gave  unremitting  attention  to  his  editorial  duties,  not  ceasing  to 
be  a  journalist  because  he  sat  in  the  chair  of  Governor.  There  is  good  rea- 
son to  believe  that,  without  regret,  he  laid  aside  his  gubernatorial  cares 
that  he  might  devote  his  whole  time  to  the  pursuits  of  his  chosen  profes- 
sion, and,  if  possible,  bring  the  paper,  which  was  the  choice  of  his  affec- 
tions, nearer  his  ideal  of  what  such  a  periodical  shoidd  be. 

To  the  congenial  pursuits  of  his  profession  Mr.  Anthony  gave  himself 
■with  singular  earnestness,  and  with  but  occasional  intermissions  for  the 
next  six  or  seven    vears  of  his   life.      The   close  of  the   term  of  senatoria 


INTRODUCTION.  xvii 

service  in  Congress  of  the  Hon.  Philip  Allen  on  the  fourth  of  March,  1859, 
made  it  necessary  to  elect  a  Senator  to  represent  the  State  of  Rhode  Island 
at   the   Capitol    in   Washington.     The   AVhigs  —  the    political  party  Avith 
which  Mr.  Anthony  had  been  so    long   identified  —  being  in  the  ascendant 
in   both  branches  of  the  General  Assembly,  he  was  elected   to  what   he 
always  regarded  as  one  of  the  most  important  and  honorable  positions  a 
citizen  of  the  United  States  can  till.     He  took  his  seat  in  Congress  on  the 
fifth  of  December,  1859.     This   was  the  second  Congress  of  the  adminis- 
tration of  President  Buchanan,  one  of  the  darkest  and  dreariest  periods  in 
American  history.     Although  among  the  youngest  members  of  the  august 
body  to  which  he  had  been  elected,  being  only  forty-four  years  of  age,  few 
of  the  associates  of  Mr.  Anthony  were  better  acquainted  with  the  serious 
problems  which  were  constantly  coming  before  Congress  for  discussion  and 
for  solution.      For  years,  at  the  head  of  an  important  journal,  ho  had  had 
occasion   to   consider   these  matters,  and  had  given  earnest  and  profound 
thought  to  the  grave  topics  which  engaged  the  attention  of  the  best  think, 
ers  in  all  parts  of  the  country.      He   loved   the  Union.      Gladly  would  he 
have  saved  it  from  the  horrors  of  bitter  civil   strife.      But  Avhen  it  became 
clear  that   the  questions  at  issue  must  be    submitted  to  tlie  stern  arbitra- 
ment of  the  sword,  he  accepted  the  alternative,  and  through  all  the  sorrow- 
ful years  of  the  civil  war,  he  faithfully  stood  by  the  constituted  authorities 
and  bore  his  part  in  maintaining  what  he  believed  to  be  a  righteous  cause. 
We  cannot,  in  our  brief  sketch,  present  anything  like  a  detailed  account  of 
Mr.  Anthony's  career  in  Congress.     We  allude  only  tQ  one  or  two  impor- 
tant positions  which  he  filled.     As  was  most  fitting,  considering  what  were 
his  antecedents,  he  was  placed,  soon  after  taking  his  seat,  on  the  Joint  Com- 
mittee on  Public  Printing,  and  at  the  beginning  of  Mr.  Lincoln's  adminis- 
tration   was  matle    Chairman  of  the  Committee.      With   a   brief  interval 
in  1880-81,  he  held  this   position  during   his  whole  term  of  office  in  Con- 
gress.     Early  in  his   congressional  career  he  was   placed  also  on  the  Com- 
mittee on  Naval  Affairs,  serving  from  18G3  to  the  time  of  his  death.     He 
was  elected  President  pro  tempore  of  the  Senate  in  18G9,  and  again  in  1871. 
3 


XVlll  INTRODUCTION. 

But  for  circumstances  beyond  liis  control,  lie  would  have  been  chosen 
more  than  once  ajiain,  near  the  close  of  his  life,  to  the  same  high  post  of 
honor.  AVhen  the  Forty-eighth  Congress  met  in  December,  1883,  his  asso- 
ciates in  office  honored  themselves,  as  well  as  one  who  had  secured  the 
respect  and  affection  of  men  of  all  parties,  by  again  calling  him  to  preside 
over  their  deliberations.  His  knowledge  of  the  precariousness  of  his  health 
and  the  conviction  that  he  was  physically  incapacitated  from  performing 
the  duties  of  the  President  of  the  Senate,  compelled  him  to  decline  the 
service  to  Avhicli,  with  such  hearty  good  will,  he  had  been  called.  It  is  a 
touching  circumstance  which  may  well  be  referred  to  as  illustrating  the 
strong  and  tender  hold  av hie h  he,  now  "the  Father  of  the  Senate,"  had 
upon  that  distinguished  body,  that,  at  the  opening  of  Congress  at  the  time 
just  referred  to,  the  organization  of  the  body  was  postponed  until  he  was 
able  to  take  his  seat,  from  Avhich  he  had  been  debarred  by  ill  health,  and 
when  he  advanced  to  take  the  customary  oath  on  entering  upon  the  fifth 
term  of  his  Senatorial  life,  "  the  entire  Senate  arose  and  remained  stand- 
ing during  its  administration." 

His  term  of  service  in  Congress  was  longer  than  that  of  any  other 
member  who  had  been  connected  with  the  body,  with  the  exception  of 
Mr.  Benton,  who,  for  thirty  years,  represented  the  State  of  Missouri.  The 
senatorial  life  of  Mr.  Anthony  began,  as  has  already  been  stated,  Decem- 
ber 0,  1859,  and  was  terminated  by  his  death  September  2,  1884.  Reck- 
oning from  the  time  when,  by  election,  he  became  a  Senator  from  Rhode 
Island,  that  is,  from  March  4,  1859,  his  term  of  service  lacked  but  a  day 
or  two  of  being  twenty-five  and  a  half  years. 

This  sketch  would  be  incomplete  without  a  reference  to  Mr.  Anthony's 
connection  with  "The  Harris  Collection  of  American  Poetry,"  and  to  his 
personal  love  for  poetry,  of  which  he  has  given  evidence  in  the  valuable 
additions  he  made  to  the  collection,  and  in  the  productions  of  his  OAvn  pen. 

In  a  drawer  of  one  of  the  cases  of  ' '  The  Harris  Collection  "  containing 
some  of  its  rarest  and  costliest  treasures,  there  has  been  placed  for  safe 
keeping,  under  lock  and  key,  along  with  other  valuable  books,  an  octavo 


INTRODUCTION.  XIX 

volume  of  twelve  pages  only  of  printed  matter,  and  some  twenty-five  blank 
pages,  to  give  a  reasonable  thickness  to  the  book.  The  external  dress  of 
the  volume  is  a  rich  and  most  attractive  looking  binding,  in  the  highest 
style  of  the  binder's  art,  the  sight  of  which  would  bring  joy  to  the  biblio- 
phile's heart.  On  opening  this  beautiful  volume,  two  titles  meet  the  eye 
of  the  reader.  These  titles  are  separated  by  an  explanatory,  note  which 
covers  nearly  a  page.  The  first  title  is  as  follows  :  "  The  Fancy  Ball. 
A  Poem.  Providence:  Sidney  S.  Rider.  1875."  A  single  line  is  on  the 
reverse  side  of  the  leaf  and  reads:  "A  PRIVATE  REPRINT  OF 
ONE  HUNDRED  COPIES."     The  note  referred  to  is  as  follows  : 


"  These  verses  were  written  in  1837,  and  were  intended  to  describe  an  entertain- 
ment given  at  the  residence  of  Mr.  Barnsley,  one  of  the  merchant  princes  of  Savan- 
nah, a  gentleman  well  remembered  by  the  older  citizens,  for  his  courtesy,  his  high 
character  and  his  elegant  hospitaUty.  Of  those  who  participated  in  the  gay  and 
brilliant  scene,  the  greater  number  must  have  passed  away ;  for  the  date  is  divided 
from  us  by  more  than  the  space  of  a  generation,  and  the  writer  cannot,  in  looking 
over  his  rhymes,  recall  the  names  of  half  of  those  whose  charms  inspired  them. 

"A  few  months  since  he  visited  the  beautiful  city  of  Savannah,  wlilch  had  so 
greatly  enlarged  and  improved  since  he  saw  it,  and  he  found  in  its  new  life  and 
bustle  a  few  grave  matrons  and  elderly  men  who  had  danced  at  the  '  Fancy  Ball.' 
His  pride  of  authorship  was  unduly  aroused  when  two  of  them  quoted  more  than 
he  could  from  his  boyish  lines,  which  were  preserved  only  in  their  memory,  for 
there  appeared  to  be  no  copy  extant.  From  the  only  one  within  his  reach  he  has 
reprinted  a  hundred  copies,  mainly  that  he  may  send  them  to  friends  wlio  so  kindly 
remembered  him,  and  as  a  memorial  of  a  delightful  visit  and  of  most  hospitable 
kindness. 

"No  corrections  have  been  made  from  the  original  edition,  although  the  errors  of 
style  and  composition  will  be  evident  to  the  most  careless  reader.  To  alter  the 
verses  would  be,  in  some  sort,  to  endorse  at  mature  age  an  effusion  whose  apology 
is  that  it  was  written  by  a  very  inexperienced  pen  immediately  after  the  occasion 
which  it  commemorates,  while  the  music  was  still  ringing  in  the  writer's  ears,  and 
the  dazzle  of  the  l)rilliant  scene  had  hardly  passed  from  before  his  eyes  ;  and  with 
the  certainty  that  it  would  meet  only  the  kindly  criticism  which  gives  its  full 
approval  in  advance. 

"HENRY   B.  ANTHONY. 

"Pkoviden'ce,  June,  1875." 


XX  INTRODUCTION. 

Tlie  socoml  title,  the  original  oiio,  roads  tlms  :  *' The  Fancy  Ball.  A 
Sketeli.  Printed  for  Private  Circnlation.  Pulaski  House,  Savannah, 
March  31.  1838." 

Our  space  allows  us  to  present  only  the  introductory  and  closing  lines  of 
the  poem  : 


"  As  floats  the  fancies  of  a  gorgeous  dream 
That  vanished  with  the  morning's  earliest  beam  ; 
As  haunts  the  ear  some  lialf-remembered  strain 
It  once  hath  heard,  and  seems  to  hear  again  ; 
As  flowers  whose  beauty  and  wliose  bloom  hath  fled, 
Each  bright  leaf  withered  and  each  green  one  dead, 
A  grateful,  an  undying  fragrance  bear. 
To  tell  what  blushing  beauty  once  was  there ;  — 
So  turns  my  memory  to  that  brilliant  sight 
When  wit  and  beauty  held  their  festal  night ; 
When  thronged  hall  its  glittering  groups  displayed 
Of  Nature's  loveliness,  by  art  arrayed  ; 
Of  graceful  forms  that  mocked  the  sculptor's  art. 
And  eyes  whose  glances  reached  the  coldest  heart. 
Of  all  that  beauty  loves  or  taste  admires. 
Of  all  that  valor  warms  or  genius  fires." 


The  writer  then  goes  on  to  give  a  "  pen-picture"  of  the  charming  tab- 
leaux which  passed  before  his  eye.  What  gives  added  interest  to  the  volume, 
which  is  in  •'  The  Harris  Collection,"  is  the  circumstance  that  a  Savannah 
lady,  Avho  was  present  on  the  occasion,  sent,  in  response  to  a  request  of 
Mr.  Anthony,  the  names  of  all  tlie  characters  he  describes  in  his  poem, 
and  these  names  are  inserted  in  the  margins  of  its  pages.  After  describing 
with  graceful  pen  the  brilliant  scenes  of  the  festive  evening,  a  pensive -aood 
comes  over  the  writer's  mind,  and  he  thus  brings  his  poetic  production  to 
a  close : 


INTRODUCTION.  xxi 

'Alas!  alas!-  this  week-day,  work-day  life! 
That  all  that's  brighest,  all  that's  noblest,  best, 
All  that  consoles  us  for  its  weary  strife, 
And  all  that  gives  to  time  it's  little  zest. 
Should  be,  at  most,  \mt  fancy's  transient  beam. 
Fade  iu  a  tableau,  vanish  in  a  dream!  " 


The  only  other  poems  of  Mr.  Anthony's  that  were  put  into  book 
form  were  three  in  number.  They  were  published  witli  the  following  titles  : 
"The  Dorriad,  the  Hero  of  Two  Flights,"  the  first  of  the  three;  "The 
Attack  on  the  Arsenal,"  the  second,  and  "The  Chepachet  Campaign," 
the  third.  It  is  hardly  necessary  to  say  that  these  "  squibs,"  as  Mr. 
Anthony  calls  them,  allude  to  incidents  which  occurred  in  what  is  known 
in  Rhode  Island  history  as  "  The  Dorr  Rebellion,"  in  1842. 

Senator  Anthony  died  at  his  residence.  Benevolent  street,  Providence, 
R.  I.,  at  fifteen  minutes  before  two  o'clock  on  Tuesday  afternoon,  Septem- 
ber 2,  1884,  at  the  age  of  sixty-nine  years,  five  months  and  one  day.  His 
funeral  was  honored  by  the  presence  of  President  Arthur  and  a  large  num- 
ber of  United  States  Senators,  and  other  gentlemen  from  Washington,  with 
many  distinguished  friends  of  the  deceased,  who  were  present  to  give  tes- 
timony to  their  sincere  respect  and  affection  for  the  departed. 

In  bringing  this  Introduction  to  a  close,  the  compiler  of  the  Catalogue 
of  "  The  Harris  Collection  of  American  Poetry"  desires  to  place  on  record 
his  grateful  appreciation  of  the  kindly  interest  which  has  been  expressed 
by  so  many  persons  in  the  work  which  has  engaged  his  attention  for  so 
many  months.  These  expressions  have  come  to  him  not  only  from  almost 
every  section  of  his  own  country,  but  from  England  as  well,  whose  ])oets 
and  lovers  of  poetry  will  ])e  gratified  to  note  what  share  America  has  had 
in  enriching  a  most  important  department  of  our  common  English  litera- 
ture. The  hope  is  cherished  that  both  at  home  and  abroad  there  may  be 
a  laudable  curiosity  which  the  pages  of  this  goodly-sized  volume  will  grat- 


XXll  INTRODUCTION. 

ity.  to  know,  with  a  jiood  dogrce  of  detinitcness,  what  arc  the  contents  of  a 
library  so  remarkable  and  so  altogether  unique  as  has,  by  the  munificence 
of  the  late  Senator  Anthony,  found  a  permanent  home  in  the  beautiful 
Library  Building  of  Brown  University. 

One  sad  thought  is  awakened  in  the  mind  of  the  compiler  as  he  brings 
his  pleasant  task  to  an  end  ;  and  that  is,  that  tlie  friend  who  more  than 
all  others  encouraged  him  to  undertake  this  work,  and  has  been  ever  ready 
to  cheer  him  in  its  prosecution,  shares  not  Avith  him  the  joy  of  its  com- 
pletion. The  pleasant  hours  passed  with  that  friend  in  the  common  enjoy- 
ment of  the  priceless  treasures  of  tlie  John  Carter  Brown  Library,  and 
in  delightful  talks  about  rare  and  costly  books,  will  ever  keep  green  and 
fresh  in  his  memory  the  name  and  the  virtues  of  one  who  took  so  high  a 
rank  among  our  most  distinguished  American  Bibliographers,  the  Hon. 
John  Russell  Bartlett. 


J.  C.  STOCKBRIDGE. 


Brown  University  Lirrary, 
Room  of  the  Harris  Collection  of  American  Poetrj', 
June  30,  1886. 


CATALOGUE. 


Abadie  (P.)      The  Fireman,  etc.      16°,  pp.  130.     New  York,  1852. 

Abandoned,  The.     (Anon.)     A  Sketch  of  Life  as  it  may  be  found  in  New 
England.     12°,  pp.  32.     Boston,  1848. 

Abbey  (H.) 

Henry  Abbey,  originally  named  Henry  La  Mont  Abbey,  was  born  at  Rondout,  N.  Y., 
July  11,  1842.  His  grandmother,  Lucy  Knox,  was  a  lineal  descendant  of  the  great  Scotch 
Reformer,  John  Knox.  Having  obtained  a  good  academical  education,  after  a  brief 
experience  as  assistant  editor  of  a  weekly  paper  published  in  his  native  town,  he  went  to 
New  York.  For  a  time  he  edited  The  Orange  Spectator,  and  in  1864  returned  to  Kondout 
and  was  appointed  Teller  in  a  bank  in  that  place,  devoting  his  spare  liours  to  writing  for 
several  periodicals,  and  to  the  preparation  of  a  number  of  volumes  for  the  press.  He  has 
published  up  to  this  date  (1880)  seven  books.    His  residence  is  Kingston,  N.  Y". 

—  Ballads  of  Good  Deeds  and  other  Verses.     Sq.  1G°,  pp.  1G9.     New 

York,  1872. 

—  May  Dreams.      12°,  pp.  143.     New  York,  18G2. 

—  Poems.     12°,  pp.  149.     New  York,  1879. 

—  Ralph,  and  other  Poems.     Sq.  1G°,  pp.  64.     Rondout,  N.  Y.,  1866. 

—  Stories  in  Verse.      1G°,  pp.  128.     New  York,  18G9. 

In  this  volume  there  is  an  autograph  letter  of  Mr.  Abbey,  written  to  Richard  Grant 
White,  to  whom  the  poem  is  dedicated. 

Abbot,   (Anne  W.)      Autumn    Leaves.     Original    pieces    in    Prose    and 
Verse.     12°,  pp.  200.     Cambridge,  1853. 

Abbott  (E.)      The  Baby's  Things  :  A  Story  in  Verse  for  Christmas  Eve. 
12°,  pp.  53.     New  York,  1871. 

Academic    Recreation  :     By  the    Columl)ian    Peitho-Logian    Society  of 
Columbia  College.     Vol  I.      16°,  pp.  288.     New  York,  1815. 

AcAiCO,    (I.)       Idilios    Griegos    de    Bion    de  Esmirna,  etc.     8°,  pp.  31. 
Guanajuato,   1868. 


2  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

Acrostics  kkom  across  the  Atlantic,  and  othor  poems,  humorous  and 
sentimental.  By  a  Gotliamitc.  (Anon.)  Sq.  16°,  pp.  vi,  63. 
London,  1869. 

Action,  The  Pleasures  OF.    (Anon.)     18°,  pp.  32.     Philadelphia,  1840. 
Ada.     A  Tale.      (By  Janvier,  psruf?.  Woodward?)      12°,  pp.  75.     Phila- 
delphia, 1852. 

The  supposed  author  is  Joseph  Janvier  Woodward,  M.  D.,  born  in  Philadelphia,  1833, 
took  his  degree  at  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  1853,  and  was  the  author  of  several 
medical  works  which  have  been  commended. 

Adams,  (C.  S.)  A  Poem  on  the  Use  of  Tobacco.  12°,  pp.  24.  Boston, 
1838. 

—  An  Address    (Temperance)   in  verse,  at    Harwich,  Mass.,   July  4, 

1835.     12°,  pp.  8.     Barnstable,  1835. 

Adams,  (G.  L.)  Moral  and  Religious  Musings.  18°,  pp.  vi,  108. 
Schenectady,  1835. 

Adams,  (W.  W.)     The  Book  of  Job  in  Poetry  ;  or  A  Song  in  the  Night. 

Lg.  8°,  pp.  iv,  380.      New  York,  18G4. 
Adams,  ^J.) 

John  Adams,  only  son  of  Hon.  John  Adams,  of  Nova  Scotia,  was  born  in  1704,  grad- 
uated at  Harvard  in  1721,  and  subsequently  was  settled  as  an  assistant,  contrary  to  the 
wishes  of  Rev.  Nathaniel  Clapp,  pastor  of  the  First  Congregational  Church  in  Newport,  R. 
I.  After  a  while  Mr.  Clapp  refused  to  permit  Mr.  Adams  to  preach,  himself  conducting 
the  services  of  the  church  both  parts  of  the  day.  As  a  consequence  nearly  one-half  of  the 
church  and  congregation  withdrew.  A  new  church  was  formed,  of  which  Mr.  Adams  was 
ordained  pastor  April  11,  1828,  remaining  not  far  from  two  years.  He  removed  to  Cam- 
bridge, where  he  devoted  himself  to  literary  pursuits.  He  had  a  well  deserved  reputation 
as  an  eloquent  preacher  and  an  accomplished  linguist,  being,  as  described  by  his  uncle, 
Matthew  Adams,  "  master  of  nine  hmguages,"  and  was  '•  familiar  with  the  best  writings 
in  ancient  and  moilern  literature."  He  died  in  1740,  at  the  early  age  of  thirty-six.  It  is  said 
that  the  Fellows  of  Harvard  College  were  his  pall-bearers,  and  the  most  distinguished 
persons  of  tlie  State  were  mourners  at  his  funeral.  Five  years  after  his  death  his  poems 
were  collected  and  published  with  the  following  title  : 

—  Poems  on   Several  Occasions,  Original    and    Translated,  by  the  late 

Reverend  and  Learned  John  Adams,  M.  A.  Hoc  placuit  se^nel, 
hoc  decies  repetita  placehit.  Hor.  de  Art.  Poet.  Printed  for  D. 
Gookin,  in  Marlborough  street,  over  against  the  Old  South  Meet- 
ing House,  1745. 

The  volume  is  an  18°,  of  176  pages. 

Adams,  (J.  J.)  The  Charter  Oak,  etc.  12°,  pp.  ix,  GO.  New  York, 
1830. 

—  Same.      1839. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  3 

Adams,   (J.  Q.) 

John  Quincy  Adams  was  born  in  Braintree,  Mass.,  July  11, 1767,  and  was  the  sixth. 
President  of  the  United  States.    He  died  in  the  Capitol  at  Washington,  February  21,  181S. 

—  Dermot   MacMorrogh.  or   The    Conquest  of  Ireland.     16°,  pp.  xv, 

108.     Columbus,  1834. 

—  Poems  of  Religion  and  Society.      1G°,  pp.  iv,  11(3.     Auburn,  N.  Y.. 

1859. 

Adams,  (J.  T.)     Poems.     12°,  pp.  47.     No  place,  no  date. 

Adams,  (Mrs.  J.  F.)  Poems  and  Essays.  8°,  pp.  124.  Lawrence. 
No  date. 

Adams,  (R.  C.)  History  of  the  United  States  in  Rhyme.  Sq.  16°,  pp. 
72.     Boston,  1884. 

Address,  An,  to  a  Provincial  Bashaw.  (By  a  Son  of  Liberty.)  Sq. 
12°,  pp.  8.  Printed  in  the  Tyrannic  Administration  of  St.  Fran- 
cisco.     (Probably  Sir  Francis  Bernard.)     No  place.      1769. 

Bernard  was  an  English  lawyer.  From  1758  to  1700  he  was  Governor  of  New  Jersey, 
and  then  was  appointed  Governor  of  Massachusetts.  By  bringing  troops  to  Boston  he 
awakened  the  hostility  of  the  citizens,  and  made  himself  obnoxious  by  his  attempts  to 
enforce  the  acts  which  were  bitterly  opposed  by  the  people,  and  finally  led  to  the  war  of 
the  Revolution.    In  1769  he  was  recalled  to  England,  and  died  in  1779. 

Addresses,  Rejected  ;  or.  The  New  Theatrum  Poet  arum.  From 
the  19th  London  Edition.  3d  American  Edition.  12°,  pp.  159. 
Boston,  1841. 

Addresses,  The  Rejected.  New  Park  Theatre,  N.  Y.  18°,  pp.  182. 
New  York,  1821. 

Ad  Interim  and  Ad  Outerim  ;  or.  Confidential  Disclosures  of 
State  Secrets.     2d  Edition.     8°,  pp.  30.     Washington,  1868. 

Adler,  (G.  J.) 

George  J.  Adler  was  born  at  Leipsic,  Germany,  in  1S21,  came  to  the  United  .States  in 
183.3,  graduated  at  the  New  York  University  in  1814,  and  was  professor  in  that  institution, 
1846-54.  He  composed  Latin  and-German  School  Manuals,  and  an  excellent  German  and 
English  Dictionary.    His  death  took  place  in  the  city  of  New  York,  August  24,  1868. 

—  Ipliigenia  in  Tauris.     Tran.slated  from  the  German  of  Ga'the.      12°, 
pp.  155.     New  York,  1856. 

Advent  Poem.  (Anon.)  (Written  in  pencil.  White.)  12°,  pp.  16.  No 
place,  no  date. 

4 


4  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

^ESOP  IN  KiiYME.  (By  ]Miinn;i(liike  Park,  pseiidJ)  12°,  pp.  288. 
Pliiliulolpliia  and  Now  York,  1855. 

Affairs  in  North  America.     Title-page  wanting. 

This  poem  has  reference  to  the  state  of  the  country  in  the  early  stages  of  the  Revolu- 
tionary war. 

Africa.      (Anon.)      2d  Edition.      12°,  pp.  20.     Andover,  1826. 

Tlie  name  of  the  author  was.  without  doubt,  Ann  Evans.  See  reference  to  the  poems 
in  Memoirs  of  W.  L.  Garrison,  Vol.  1. 

Age  of  Error,  The  ;  or,  A  Poetical  Essay  on  the  Course  of  Human 
Action.  By  a  Philadelphian.  (Anon.)  0  curas  hominum  !  O 
quantum  est  in  rebus  inane  !  Per.  Sat.  II.  8°,  pp.  16.  Phila- 
delphia, 1797. 

No  clue  is  given  to  tlie  name  of  the  author.  "  Nineteen  and  youthful  enthusiasm,"  he 
says,  "are  the  only  confessions  I  can  make  to  the  critic,  whose  breast  may  swell  with 
indignation  at  the  faults  of  the  poem." 

The  general  argument  of  the  poem  is  this,  viz. :  "  Our  structure  of  happiness  is  alone 
built  on  the  moral  tendency  of  our  actions;  and  virtue  is  the  only  basis  which  can  support 
it." 

Agg,  (J.) 

John  Agg  was  an  English  poet  and  novelist,  whose  productions  were  Issued  from  the 
London  press,  1808-1.3.  He  came  to  the  United  States  not  far  from  the  year  1816.  A  large 
part  of  the  Preface  to  the  volume,  whose  title  is  here  given,  is  taken  up  with  "  Some  Obser- 
vations respecting  the  Causes  of  the  Increasing  Emigration  from  England  to  America." 
The  author  is  enthusiastic  in  his  praises  of  his  adopted  home.  "Striking,  indeed,  is  the 
contrast  "  between  England  and  America.  "  The  glory  of  Britain,"  he  exclaims,  "  has 
passed  its  meridian,  and  shapes  a  declining  course ;  the  sun  of  Columbia  majestically  rises 
above  the  political  horizon,  and  distant  nations  mark  its  increasing  splendor  with  envy  and 
apprehension.  May  its  beams  shine  to  the  remotest  shores  of  the  world;  and  may  ages 
beyond  the  calculation  of  fancy  find  cause  to  rejoice  in  its  radiance !" 

—  The  Ocean  Harp  :  A  Poem  ;  In  Two  Cantos  :  with  some  smaller 
pieces,  and  a  monody  on  the  death  of  John  Tyng  Dorsey,  M.  D. 
24°,  pp.  xxviii,  182.     Philadelphia,  1819. 

Aiken,  (G.  L.)  Uncle  Tom's  Cabin  Dramatized.  12°,  pp.  60.  New 
York.     No  date. 

AiNSLIE,   (H.) 

Hew  Ainslie  was  born  April  5,  1792,  in  Ayrshire,  Scotland,  on  the  estate  of  Sir  Hugh 
Dalrymple  Hamilton,  his  father,  George  Ainslie,  being  employed  by  the  Knight  for  several 
years.  He  was  well  educated,  and,  for  a  time,  was  the  amanuensis  of  the  celebrated 
Dugald  Stewart,  of  whose  last  work  he  made  a  copy  for  publication.  He  came  to  the 
United  States  in  1822,  and  purchased  a  small  farm  in  Hoosick,  Rensselaer  County,  N.  Y. 
Influenced  by  the  attractions  held  out  by  Robert  Owen,  he  removed,  in  1825,  to  New  Har- 


AMERICAX    POETEY.  5 

AlXSLlE,  (H.)  —  Continued. 

mony  to  try  the  experiment  of  communism,  but  being  disappointed  he  took  up  his  resi- 
dence as  a  biewer,  first  at  Shippingport,  Ky.,  then  at  Louisville,  and  then  at  New  Albany. 
He  seems  not  to  have  been  very  fortunate  in  his  business  affairs.  For  a  time  he  resided  in 
Jersey  City,  and  died  in  Louisville  March  12,  1878. 

—  Scottish   Songs,  Ballads    and   Poems.      12",  vii.   216.     New  York, 

1855. 

Akerman,  (Lucy  E.)     Nothing  but  Leaves.    8°,  pp.  73.    Providence,  1875. 
Akers,   (Eliz.)      (Florence  Perry.) 

Mrs.  Elizabetli  (Chase  Akers)  Allen  was  born  in  .Strong,  Me.,  in  1832,  spent  her  early 
life  in  Farmington,  Me.,  and  devoted  herself  to  literary  pursuits.  She  married,  in  1800, 
Mr.  E.  M.  Allen,  and  subsequently  took  up  her  residence  in  Greenville,  N.  J.,  removing  to 
that  place  in  1872. 

—  Poems.      18°,  pp.  251.     Boston,  1866.     Blue  and  Gold  Series. 
Album,  The.       (F.   &  R.    Lockvvood,   Publishers.)      16°,  pp.  x,    154. 

New  Y^ork,  1824. 
Alcott,  (A.  B.) 

Amos  Bronson  Alcott  was  born  at  Wolcott,  Conn.,  November  29,  1790.  He  was  a  rep- 
resentative of"  The  Transcendental  .School,"  and  contributed  many  articles  to  the  famous 
periodical,  "  The  Dial."    He  is  called  "  The  Ideal  Philosopher  of  Concord." 

—  Sonnets  and  Canzonets.      16°,  pp.  iv,  149.     Boston,  1882. 

Alderman  Rooxy  at  the   Cable   Banquet.     Lg.  8°,  pp.   113.     New 
Y'ork,  1866. 

—  Same.     At  the    Great    Exhibition.      Another   Epic.      (By  Himself, 

Anon.)      12°,  pp.  22.     New  York,  1867. 

Aldrich,  (T.  B.) 

Thomas  Bailey  Aldrich  was  born  at  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  in  18:50.  For  a  time  he  was 
assistant  editor  of  the  Kew  York  Home  Journal.  Among  American  poets  he  takes  high 
rank,  and  his  periodical  articles  are  received  with  great  favor. 

—  Flower  and  Thorn.      Later  Poems.      12°,  pp.  ix,  149.     Boston,  1877. 

—  Same.     4th  Edition.      16°,  pp.  150.     Boston,  1882. 

—  Mercedes  and  Later  Lyrics.      12°,  pp.  111.     Boston,  1884. 

—  Pampinea,  etc.      12°,  pp.  vi,  72.      NeAv  York,  1861. 

—  Poems.       18°,  pp.    161.      New  York  and    London,  1863.     Blue  and 

Gold  Series. 

—  Same.      18°,  pp.  240..    Boston,  1865.      Blue  and  Gold  Series. 

—  The  Ballad  of  Babie  Bell.  etc.      12°,  pp.  vi,  117.      New  York,  1859. 

—  The    Bells;    A  Collection  of  Chimes.      12°,  pp.    144.     New  York, 

1855. 


6  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

Alphicii.  (T.  B.) — Co))ti)ii(ed. 

—  Samo.      Tlio  Course  of  True  Love  never  did  Run  Smooth.      12°,  pp. 

xii,  41.     New  York,  1858. 

Ale.    IX    Pkose    and  Verse.      (Gray  and  Savage.)     4°,  pp.  97.     New 
York,  1866. 

Alessandro,    (P.    D')      Monte   Auburno.      1G°,   pp.  22.     Stati  Uniti  di 

America.     1835. 
Alexander,  (J.  H.) 

John  Henry  Alexander  was  born  at  Annapolis,  Md.,  in  1812.  He  was  the  author  of 
many  scientific  papers  publislied  in  England,  France,  Germany  and  the  United  States.  He 
died  at  Baltimore,  March  2  1S07. 

—  Catena  Dominica.      12°,  pp.  v,  177.     Philadelphia,  1855. 

—  Same.     Intro'its,   or  Ante-Communion    Psalms,    etc.      18°,   pp.  viii, 

186.     Philadelphia,  1844. 
Alexander,  (W.)     Poetical  Works.     8°,   pp.   xiv,   263.     Philadelphia, 

1847. 
Alger,    (H.)      Nothing  to  Do.      An    Accompaniment  to  "Nothing  to 

Wear."     Illustrated  by  the   Author.      12°,   pp.   57.     New  York, 

1857. 

Alger,  (W.  R.) 

William  Rounseville  Alger  was  born  at  Freetown,  Mass.,  December  11,  1823,  graduated 
at  the  Harvard  Theological  School  in  184",  and  became  a  Unitarian  minister.  He  is  the 
author  of  several  well-known  works. 

—  The  Poetry  of  the  East.      12°,  pp.  viii,  280.     Boston,  1856. 

—  The  Poetry  of  the  Orient.      12°,  pp.  vii,  337.     Boston,   1865. 

Algerine  Slaves.      (Anon.)     12°,  pp.  173.     Newburyport,  1798. 

The  work  bears  the  signature  "  Juvenis,"  and  is  preceded  by  a  Journal  of  John  Foss. 
The  title-pages  are  independent,  but  the  pagination  is  continuous. 

Allan,  (P.  J.) 

Peter  John  Allan  was  born  at  York,  England,  June  0,  1825,  and  was  the  third  son  of 
Dr.  Colin  Allan,  a  surgeon  in  the  army,  who  was  stationed  at  Halifax.  In  1836,  Dr.  A. 
removed  to  Fredericton,  N.  S.,  where  he  spent  the  remaining  years  of  his  life.  The  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch  studied  liiw,  but  did  not  devote  liimself  to  the  practice  of  his  profession, 
preferring  "  the  thorny  path  of  literature."  The  personal  appearance  of  Mr.  Allan  is 
described  as  having  been  unusually  prepossessing.  "  In  stature  he  stood  six  feet  three 
inches,  at  the  least;  his  features  classical,  sufficiently  regular,  manly  and  intelligent;  his 
dark  eye  sparkled  with  wit  and  good  humour,  and  when  he  wore  his  beard  and  mous- 
tache, he  might  have  sat  as  a  Cavalier  to  Vandyk."  His  life  was  a  brief  one.  He  had 
sent  the  manuscript  of  a  poem  which  he  had  written  to  England  for  publication,  but  before 
it  was  printed  he  had  passed  away,  at  the  early  age  of  twenty-three. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  7 

Allan,  (P.  J.)  —  Continued. 

Mr.  A.,  in  justification  of  his  devotion  to  liter.ary  pursuits,  s.ays  :  "  Mj^  lot  having  been 
cast  on  the  wrong  side  oftlie  Athmtic,  in  a  colony  wlicre  the  Muse  cannot  find  a  resting, 
place  for  the  sole  of  her  foot  —  in  its  very  little  Capital,  whose  politics  would  be  mere  pri- 
vate scandal  to  a  European  ear,  and  whose  society  is  strangely  limited  —  can  it  be  a  mat- 
ter of  surprise  that  I  should  have  sought  relaxation  from  more  severe  studies  in  the 
amiable  foible  of  verse-making?  " 

—  Poetical  Remains.      12°,  pp.  xxiv,  171.     London,  1853. 

Allen,  (B.)    (pseud.  Osander.) 

Rev.  Benjamin  Allen,  an  Episcopal  clergyman,  was  born  at  Hudson,  X.  Y.,  and  was 
rector  of  St.  Paul's  Church,  riiiladelphia,  1821-2'J.  He  died  on  board  ship,  on  his  return 
from  a  tour  abroad. 

—  Poems.      12°,  pp.  180.     Hudson,  1811. 

—  The  Death  of  Abdallah.     24°,  pp.  vi,  192.     New  York,  1814. 
Allen,   (B.,  Jr.)     The  Phcenix  ;  or  The  Battle  of  Valparaiso.     16°,  pp- 

viii,  37.     New  York,   1814. 

This  volume  is  dedicated  to  Col.  Henry  Rutgers.  Ten  pages  are  devoted  to  the  official 
letter  of  Capt.  D.  Porter,  dated  "  Essex  Junior,  July  3,  1814,  at  sea,"  in  which  he  gives  an 
account  of  his  movements  from  the  time  he  left  the  Delaware,  October  27,  1812,  to  the  date 
of  the  destruction  of  the  Essex,  of  which  he  was  the  Commander. 

—  Urania,   or  the  True  Use  of  Poesy.     24°,    pp.    192.     New   York, 

1814. 
Allen,  (Charlotte.)     Poems.      16°,  pp.  vi,  143.     Boston,  J841. 

—  Same.     Second  Edition.     Boston,  1843. 

Allen,  (Eleanor.)  The  Siege  of  Agrigentum.  10°,  pp.  79.  Boston, 
1841. 

Allen,  (J.)  A  Poem  on  the  Existence  of  God.  An  Ode  on  Creation. 
To  Avhich  are  added  several  Hymns,  and  an  P^ulogy  on  Gen. 
George  Washington.      16°,  pp.  36.     Haverhill,  1803. 

Allen,  (Elizabeth.)  The  Silent  Harp,  or  Fugitive  Poems.  12°.  Bur- 
lington, 1832. 

Allen,  (Esther  C.)     AVashington.     18°,  pp.  15.     Brooklyn,  1861. 

Allen,  (Mrs.  H.  B.)  A  Poetical  Geognosy.  12°,  pp.  34.  Boston, 
1841. 

Allen,  (J.) 

James  Allen  was  born  in  Boston,  July  24,  1739.  In  his  youth  he  devoted  but  little 
attention  to  study,  contrary  to  the  earnest  wish  of  his  father,  a  merchant  of  considerable 
wealth  in  Boston.  He  was  three  years  in  Harvard  College,  spending  his  time  in  an  aimless, 
unprofitable  way,  and  then  he  renounced  the  pursuits  of  learning.  His  chief  employment 
was  writing  essays  and  verses  upon  political  themes.    The  subject  of  the  poem,  whose 


8  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

Allen,  (J.)  —  Goutiitued. 

title  is  given  below,  was  "  The  Boston  Massacre,"  and  it  was  written  at  tlie  reriuest  of  Dr. 
Joseph  Warren,  and  the  town  authorities  voted  to  publish  it.  The  political  principles  of 
the  writer  being  regarded  as  unsound,  the  authorities  declined  to  print  it.  Some  of  his 
friends,  however,  took  it  upon  themselves  to  publish  it. 

—  The  Poem,  voted  to  be  published  with   the  h^te  Oration,  etc.      4°,  2)p. 

30.     1772. 

Allen,  (Mrs.,  of  Maryland.)  Pastorals,  P^legies,  etc.  16°,  pp.  163. 
Abinuton,  Md.,  1806. 

Allen,  (P.) 

Paul  Allen  was  born  at  Providence,  R.  I.,  in  1775,  and  graduated  at  Brown  University 
in  179.3.  As  an  associate  with  Pierpont  and  John  Neal,  he  was  a  contributor  to  several 
periodicals.  For  a  time  he  was  editor  of  the  Federal  Republican  of  Baltimore,  etc- 
"  Noah  "  originally  consisted  of  twenty-five  cantos.  Under  the  revision  of  Mr.  Neal  it  was 
reduced  to  five  cantos.    Mr.  A.  died  in  1826. 

—  Noah.      18°,  pp.  xi,  103.      Baltimore,  1821. 

—  Occasional  Poems.      12°,  pp.  vi,  141.     Salem,  1801. 

Allen  (AY.) 

William  Allen,  D.  D.,  was  born  at  Pittsfield,  Mass.,  January  2, 1781,  graduated  at 
Harvard  College  1802,  was  President  of  Bowdoin  College  1820-39,  and  is  best  known  in 
the  literary  world  as  tlie  author  of  "American  Biographical  and  Historical  Dictionary." 
He  died  July  IQ,  1S(J8. 

—  Poem   at  the  Berkshire  Jubilee,  August   22  and  23,  1844.     Bound 

with  Sermon  of  Dr.  Hopkins  and  Oration  by  J.  A.  Spencer,  Esq. 
Large  8°,  pp.  2i4.  Albany.  1845.  Several  other  Poems  are 
found  in  the  volume. 

—  Wunnissoo,  or  the  Vale  of  Hoosatunnuk.     A  Poem,  with  notes.     12°, 

pp.  237.     Boston,  1856. 

Allfudge's  Instructions  to  the  New  York  Police  in  Verse.  (By  an 
Up-town  Democrat.  Anon.)  3d  Edition.  12°,  pp.  35.  New 
Y'ork,  1859. 

Allin,  (Abby).  Home  Ballads:  A  Book  for  New  Englanders.  In 
Three  Parts.      12°,  pp.  238.     Boston,  1851. 

iliss  Allin,  by  marriage,  became  Mrs.  D.  S.  Curtiss. 

Allston,  (J.  B.)      Sumter.     8°,  pp.  11.     Charleston,  1874. 
Allston,  (W.) 

Washington  Allston  was  born  in  Georgetown,  S.  C,  November  5,  1779,  and  graduated 
at  Harvard  in  1800.  He  devoted  his  life  to  art,  spent  many  years  abroad,  where  he  painted 
those  master-pieces  which  have  given  him  a  world-wide  reputation.  He  died  at  Cam- 
bridge, Mass.,  July  9,  1843. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  9 

Allston,  (W.) — Cojitinued. 

—  Lectures  on  Art,  and  Poems.     Edited  by  R.  H.  Dana,  Jr.      12°,  pp. 

xi,  380.     New  York,  1850. 

—  The   Sylphs  of  the   Seasons,  etc.     12°,  pp.  vii,   108.     Boston,  1813. 

Almendares,  La  Profecia  del.  Fragmento  de  un  Canto.  1850.  12°, 
pp.  19.     Nueva  York,  1860. 

Almy,  (Axxie  W.)     Early  Poems.     18°,  pp.  56.     Boston,  1866. 

Alsop,  (R.) 

Richard  Alsop  was  born  at  Miildletown,  Conn.,  in  January,  1761.  He  pursued  a  partial 
course  of  study  at  Yale  College,  but  did  not  graduate.  For  a  number  of  years  he  devoted 
himself  to  literary  pursuits,  and  became  a  proficient  in  the  modern  languages  of  Europe. 
"  The  Charms  of  Fancy,"  and  another  poem,  "  The  Conquest  of  Scandinavia,"  were  writ- 
ten, but  no  part  of  the  first  was  published  during  his  life,  and  only  portions  of  the  Becond. 
He  was  associated  with  other  poets  in  the  production  of  several  works,  e.  </.,  "  The  Echo  " 
and  "  The  Political  Green-House."  His  death  occurred  at  Flatbush,  Long  Island,  in 
August,  1815. 

—  Charms  of  Fancy.      Lg.  12°,  pp.  xii,  214.     New  York,  1856. 

—  The  Enchanted  Lake.     8°,  pp.  vii,  67.     New  York,  1806. 

Ambler,  (A.  I.)     Jessie  Reed,  etc.      16°,  pp.  108.     Philadelphia.  1867. 
Amenquade,  (L'.)     Poeme.     8°,  pp.  22.     Pliiladelphia,  1780. 
Amelia. 

Mrs.  Amelia  B.  (Coppuck)  Welby  was  born  at  St.  Michaels,  Md.,  in  1821,  In  1838 
married  Mr.  George  B.  Welby,  of  Louisville,  Ky.,  where  she  subsequently  lived.  Her 
death  took  place  at  Lexington,  Ky.,  May  2,  1852. 

—  Gems  of  Poetry,  with   Biographical  Sketch  of  Amelia  B.  Coppuck. 

With  Selections  from  American  and  British  Poets.  2d  Edition. 
■     Sm.  16°,  pp.  224.     Philadelphia,  1851. 

Amer,  One  Week  At.      (Anon.)      12°,  pp.  viii,   119.     Boston,  1858. 

America:  A  Dramatic  Poem.     12°,  pp.  110.     New  York,  1863. 

America  Cup,  The.  A  Nautical  Poem,  descriptive  of  the  five  interna- 
tional races  between  the  yacht  Livonia,  representing  the  twelve 
yacht  clubs  of  the  Royal  Yacht  Squadron  of  England,  and  the 
yachts  Columbia  and  Sappho  of  the  New  York  Yacht  Club,  for 
the  possession  of  the  Challenge  Cup,  won  by  the  Yacht  America  in 
in  the  year  1851,     8°,  pp.  118.     New  York,  1874, 

America  Discovered.  A  Poem.  In  12  Books.  By  an  American. 
(Anon.)      12°,  pp.  iv,  283.     New  York,  1850. 


10  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

American  in  Algikrs,  The.     12°,  pp.  33.     New  York,  1797. 

American  Liberty.     (Aiioii.)     12°,  pp.  12.     New  York,  1775. 

American  Ma(;azine,  The,  and  Monthly  Chronicle  for  the  British 
Colonies.  Vol.  I.  Containing  from  October,  1757,  to  October, 
1758,  Prose  and  Poetry.  By  a  Society  of  Gentlemen.  8°,  pp. 
G50.     Philadelphia. 

American  Poems.  Original  and  Selected.  Edited  by  Elisha  Smith. 
Vol.  1.     8°,  pp.  304.     Litchfield,  1793. 

Only  volume  published. 

American  Sketches.  Farmers'  Fireside.  12°,  pp.  12,  Concord,  N. 
H.,  1822. 

Americans  IN  Paris.  A  Comedy.  (Anon.)  12°,  pp.  32.  New  York, 
no  date. 

American  Universal  Magazine,  The.  Prose  and  Poetry.  Vols.  II, 
III.      12°,  pp.  338,  464.     Philadelphia,  1797. 

Ames,  (N.)      (Alguno  Henor,  twm  de  illume.) 

Nathan  Ames  graduated  at  Harvard  in  1848.  He  was  the  author  of  "  The  Bard  of 
Lind,"  being  ten  parodies  of  Longfellow  and  others  purporting  to  be  expressly  written 
for  the  "  Greeting  to  America  of  Jenny  Lind."    Mr.  A.  died  in  1865. 

—  Pirates  Glen  and  Dungeon  Rock.      16°,  pp.  viii,  64.     Boston,  1853. 

Amory,   (T.  C.)     William  Blackstone,   Boston's    First   Inhabitant.     2d 

Edition.      12°,  pp.  38.     Boston,  1877. 
Andre,  (J.) 

John  Andre,  an  Adjutant-General  in  the  British  army  in  the  war  of  the  Revolution, 
was  born  of  Swiss  parentage  in  London,  in  1751,  received  his  first  commission  as  an  army 
oflicer  in  1771,  and  came  to  America  in  1774  as  a  lieutenant  in  the  Royal  Fusiliers.  The 
story  of  his  connection  with  the  treachery  of  Benedict  Arnold,  and  his  execution  as  a  spy 
October  2, 1780,  are  familiar  to  all  readers  of  American  history.  In  1821  his  remains  were 
disinterred  and  removed  to  Westminster  Abbey. 

—  The  Cow  Chase.     8°,  pp.  69.     Albany,  1866. 

This  satirical  poem  by  Major  Andre  has  been  regarded  with  special  interest  from  the 
circumstance  of  its  being  among  the  last  of  the  writings  of  this  talented  but  indiscreet 
young  olficer.  It  is  founded  upon  an  unsuccessful  attempt  of  a  party,  under  General 
Wayne,  to  capture  a  block-house  upon  the  Hudson,  in  New  Jersey,  and  but  a  short  dis- 
tance from  New  York,  July  2,  1780. 

Amours  Divine;  or  Love-Scenes  in  the  Orient.  (Anon.)  12°,  pp. 
69.     New  York,  1871. 

Andros,  (Rh.  S.  S.)     Chocorua,  etc.     8°,  pp.  vi,  88.     Fall  River,  1838. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  11 

Angel  in  the  House,  etc.      (Anon.)     16°,  pp.  x,  201.     Boston,  1856. 

Angel,  The  Guardian,  etc.  (Anon.)  Sq.  18°,  pp.  64.  Philadelphia, 
1864. 

Animal  Magnetism.  A  Farce.  (Anon.)  18°,  pp.  31.  Philadelphia, 
1828. 

Animals,  Kindness  to.  Select  Poems.  16°,  pp.  108.  New  York, 
1846. 

Ankstell,  (J.)     An  Epistle  from  Yarico  to  Inkle.      (The  author's  name 
written  by  some  one  in  ink.)      By  the    Rev.  .Jolni  Ankstell,  A.  B., 
together  with  their  characters  as  related  in  The  Spectator. 
Quod  genus  hoc  dominum?  quaeve  hunc  tam 
Permittit  patria  ? 
Marblehead :     Printed   for    the    Sons    and    Daughters    of  Columbia, 
MDCCxcii.      ("Written)    By  Isaac  Story,  a  member  of  H.  College. 

For  the  story  of  Yarico  and  Inkle,  see  The  Spectator,  Yol.  I,  No.  2. 

Anniversary  Ode.  Columbian  Reading  >Society,  1806.  12°,  pp.  7. 
No  place,  no  date. 

Anniykrsary  Ode.     Union  Book  Society  of  Washington,  1808.     (Anon.) 

No  place,  no  date. 
Answer  :    A   Concise   to   the   Question,   Who   and   what   are  the 

Shakers?      (Anon.)     24°,  pp.  8.     Union  Village,  1825. 

Anthology,  The  Monthly,  and  Boston  Review.  Prose  and  Poetry. 
10  Vols.  From  the  Library  of  N.  L.  Frothingham.  Lg.  8°. 
Vol.  I,  pp.  672.  Vol.  II,  pp.  678.  Vol.  Ill,  pp.  672.  Vol.  IV, 
pp.  686.  Vol.  V.  pp.  688.  Vol.  VI,  pp.  435.  Vol.  VII,  pp. 
430.     Vol.  VIII,  pp.  432.     Vol.  IX,  pp.  430.     Vol.  X,  pp.  432. 

Anthon,  (C.  E.)     Translation  of  Baron   Miinch-Belliiighausen's  "The 
Son  of  the  Wilderness."      12°,  pp.  ix,  166.      New  York,  1848. 
Allibone  refers  to  Charles  E.  Anthon  as  author  of  Pilgrimage  to  Treves,  in  18-14.    IS^", 
New  Y'ork. 

Anthony,  (H.  B.)  For  Sketch,  sec  Introduction.  Dorriad,  or  tlie  Hero 
of  Two  Flights.     12°,  pp.  12.     Boston,  1842. 

Dorriad  and  The  Great  Slocum  Dinner.     With  Introductory  Remarks 

and  Annotations.      12°,  pp.  55.     Providence,  1870. 


12  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

Anthony,  (H.  B.)  —  Continued. 

—  Fancy  Ball.      12°,  p.  12.     Providence,  1875. 

Two  copies  ot'this  poem  are  in  the  "  Harris  Collection."  In  one,  are  pencil  notes  by 
the  author.  In  the  other  are  a  letter  and  notes  in  pencil  by  Mrs.  Margaret  M.  Welnian,  of 
Savannah.  For  a  fuller  account  of  the  poem,  see  sketch  of  Mr.  Anthony  in  the  Intro- 
duction. 

Antigonian  and  Bostonian  Beauties,  The.     A  Poem,  by  W.  ^S.,  A.  B. 
8°,  Boston,  [1754.] 

Who  W.  S.  was  is  doubtful.  One  authority  says  William  Smith,  the  first  Provost  of 
the  University  of  Pennsylvania.  On  the  title-page  of  the  volume  some  one  has  written 
Charles  Chauncy.  The  following  is  written  on  a  fly-leaf  in  pencil:  "William  Shirley, 
Governor  of  Massachusetts,  published  '  Klectra,'  a  tragedy,  and  '  Birth  of  Hercules.' " 
A  Mascjue,  1705.     (See  Allen's  Biographical  Dictionary,  .3d  Edition.) 

Archibald,  (A.  K.)     Poems.     16°,  pp.  iv,  200,     Boston,  1848. 
Arctic  Queen.      (Anon.)      12°,  pp.  62.     No  place,  no  date. 
Arey,  (Mrs.  H.  E.  G.) 

Hannah  Ellen  Grannis  was  born  in  Cavendish,  Vt..  April  14,  1819.  She  began  her 
career  as  a  contributor  to  the  Daily  Herald  of  Cleveland,  Ohio.  For  several  years  pre- 
vious to  1848,  she  was  an  accomplished  teacher  in  her  a<lopted  home.  She  married  Oliver 
Arey  in  that  year.  For  several  years  she  had  the  editorial  charge  of  periodicals  in  Buf- 
falo and  New  York.  "The  Y'ouths'  Casket"  and  the  "Home  Monthly"  were  edited 
by  her. 

—  Household  Songs  and  other  Poems.      12°,  pp.  xii,  254.     New  York, 

1855. 
Aristocracy.      (Anon.)     8°,  pp.  vii,  16.     Philadelphia,  1795. 

Aristocrat  AND  Trades  Union  Advocate.     (Anon.)     18°  pp.  xix,  35. 

Boston,  1834. 
Armstrong,  (P.)     A   Theatric  Elegy  on  the  death  of  George  F.  Cooke, 

Esq.     18°,  pp.  8.     New  York,  1812. 

Arnell.  (D.  R.)      Fruit  of  Western  Life,  or  Blanche,  and  other  Poems. 

12°,  pp.  215.     New  York,  1847. 
Arnold,  (A.  B.) 

Anthony  Brown  Arnold  was  born  in  Providence,  R.  I.,  May  14,  1791.  His  Pilgrim 
ancestors  were  among  the  early  settlers  of  Plymouth.  The  opportunities  for  obtaining  an 
education  by  Mr.  A.  were  limited.  Early  in  life  he  engaged  in  secular?  pursuits,  and  was 
an  active  business  man  for  more  than  sixty  years,  retiring  at  the  age  of  jsixty-eight.  He 
was  well  known  in  liis  native  city  as  one  who  took  a  deep  practical  interest  in  all  religious 
and  philanthropic  movements.  For  a  long  time  lie  wrote  a  poem  every  week  for  his  class 
in  the  Sunday-school.    These  were  published  with  the  title  below.    Mr.  Arnold  died  in  1885. 

—  Weekly  Offerings   to   a   Sabbath  School,  and  other  Poems.     8°,  pp. 
222.     Providence,  1875. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  13 

Arnold,  (G.) 

George  Arnold  was  born  in  tlie  city  of  Xew  York,  June  24,  1834,  and  removed  witli 
his  parents,  when  lie  was  three  years  of  age,  to  Alton,  111.,  where  he  resided  for  twelve 
years.  In  1849  he  came  East  with  his  parents,  who  took  up  their  residence  at  Strawberry 
Farms,  N.  J.  A  few  years  after,  he  began,  in  New  York,  his  career  as  a  worker  in  the 
tine  arts,  and  obtained  a  wide  reputation  as  an  art  critic.  After  a  time  he  laid  aside  the 
brush  and  devoted  himself  especially  to  literary  pursuits,  writing  largely  for  magazines, 
periodicals,  etc.  He  died  at  Strawberry  Farms,  November  9,  1865.  An  edition  of  his 
works,  edited  by  William  Winter,  and  published  by  Fields,  Osgood  &  Co.,  Boston,  has  the 
following  title : 

—  George   Arnold's  Poems.      Complete    Edition,    including:     I.  Drift, 

and   other   Poems.     II.   Poems,   Grave  and    Gay.      12°,  pp.  384. 
Boston,  1871. 

Arnold,   (Mrs.  Harriet  S.)     Birthday  Gift.     24°,  pp.  428.     Dedham, 
Mass.     Several  poems  in  the  volmne. 

Art  of  Love.     Translated   from   the  French.      (Anon.)      18°,  pp.   viii, 
144.     Philadelphia,  1839. 

Art,  The,   of  Domestick    Happiness,   etc.      (Anon.)     24°,  pp.  31 G. 

Pittsburgh,  1817. 
Artman,  (W.,)  and   Hall,  (L.  V.)     Beauties  and  Achievements  of  the 

Blind.     Prose  and  Poetry.      12°,  pp.  387.     Auburn,  N.  Y.,  1859. 

Archer,  (J.  G.)     Voices  from   the   Hearth.      12°.   pp.   108.     Montreal, 

1863. 
Ashe,  (.S.  M.)     Le  Gran  Quivera  ;  or,  Rome  Unmasked.      12°,  pp.  viii, 

148.     New  Y'ork,  1852. 

—  Monterey   Conquered.     A   Fragment   from    La    Gran   (Quivera;  or, 

Rome  Unmasked.     12°,  pp.  148.     New  York,  1852. 

Aspect  of  the   Times,  The,  etc.     By  a  native  of  Newark.      (Anon.) 

18°,  pp.  vi,  73.     Newark,  1831. 
Ass  ON  Parnassus,  etc.      (By  Jeremiah   Quiz.     Anon.)      18°.  pp.  108. 

Philadelphia,  1815. 

Association,  The,  etc.,  of  the  Delegates  of  the  Colonies,  at  the  Grand 
Congress,  held  at  Philadelphia,  SeptcMubcr  1,  1774;  versified  and 
adapted  to  music.  Calculated  for  Grave  and  Gay  Dispositions  ; 
Avith  a  Short  Litroduction.  By  Bob.  Jingle,  Esq.,  Poet  Laureate 
to  Congress.  [Philadelphia.]  Printed  in  the  year  mdcclxxiv. 
Published  by  the  Tories  to  ridicule  the  proceedings  of  Congress. 


14  HAKKI^s    COLLECTIOX. 

AsTROP,    {11.  ¥.)     Original   Poems,  etc-.     IG'',   pp.    132.     Philadelphia, 

1835. 
Atkinson,  (Mauv  E.)      On  the  Mountains.      18°,  pp.  16.     Philadelphia, 

1874. 

Attempt  (An)  to  Vindicate  the  Anu'rican  Character,  being  principally 
a  re])ly  to  the  intemperate  animadversions  of  Thomas  Moore,  Esq. 
(Anon.)      8°,  pp.  vi,  43.     Philadelpln'a,  180G. 

The  general  scope  of  tlie  "  Attempt  "  may  be  learned  from  the  following: 
"  The  hired  libeller  may  have  a  claim  upon  our  pity  or  contempt,  but  the  wanton  and 
groundless  asperities  of  Mr.  Moore  must  wound  our  feelings  and  arouse  our  indignation. 
Tliat  he  was  not  influenced  by  any  hopes  of  court  favor,  I  freely  admit;  but  who  can 
with  patience  contemplate  such  palpable  inconsistencies  as  constitute  his  character  —  a 
heart  endued  with  retined  sensiljility,  yet  liable  to  be  utterly  lost  in  the  misconceptions 
of  the  understanding;  a  mind  gifted  with  brilliant  talents,  yet  often  without  the  power 
of  ordinary  perception,  and  in  many  respects  an  irrecoverable  slave  to  prejudice." 

Atlantic  Souvenir  for  1830.     16°,  pp.  vi,  326.      Philadelphia,  1830. 

Atlee,  (E.  a.,  M.  D.)  Essays  at  Poetry,  or  a  Collection  of  Fugitive 
Pieces;  with  the  Life  of  Eugeniiis  Laude  Watts.  12°,  pp.  vii, 
152.     Philadelphia,  1828. 

Al'LD,  (J.  B.)  The  First  Good  and  the  First  Fair.  8°,  pp.  16.  New 
York,  1835. 

Aunt  Carrie's  Khvmes  for  Children.  (Anon.)  12°,  pp.  90.  Bos- 
ton and  Cambridge,  1855. 

Austin,  (A.  W.)  The  Woman  and  the  Queen.  A  Ballad,  etc.  12°, 
pp.  viii,  98.     Cambridge,  1875. 

Austin,  (J.  J.)  The  Golden  Age  to  Come.  A  Sacred  Drama.  12°, 
pp.  124.     Boston,  1854. 

AuTODicus,  {pseud.)  The  Critique  of  the  Vision  of  Rubetta.  A  Dra- 
matic Sketch.     8°,  pp.  32.     Philadelphia,  1838. 

Avery,  (D.)  A  Poetical  Address  on  Temperance.  12°,  pp.  47.  Paw- 
tucket,  1855. 

Avery,  (Mrs.  R.  J.)  Wood  Notes  Wild.  16°,  pp.  iv,  202.  Nashville, 
1843. 

Ayres,  (J.  A.)  The  Legends  of  Montauk.  With  an  Historical  Lidex. 
8°,  pp.  127.     New  York,  1849. 

The  Legends  and  the  Index  are  full  of  Information  for  all  who  desire  to  acquaint 
themselves  witli  the  history  of  Neapeague,  the  Indian  name  of  the  section  of  which  they 
treat. 


AMEBIC  AX    POETKY.  15 

Babcock,  (D.  H.)      Scenes  of  the  Past.      18°,  pp.  72.     Boston,  1844. 

Babcock,  (J.  M.  L.)  The  Spirit  of  Peace.  A  Poem  delivered  before 
the  Mechanics  Library  Association.  Boston,  February  22,  1851. 
16°,  pp.  15.     Boston,  1851. 

Babcock,  (J.  S.) 

James  Stauton  Babcock  was  born  in  South  Covenlrj-,  Conn.,  November  7,  1815,  gr.id- 
nated  at  Yale  in  1840,  taught  in  Tuscaloosa,  Ala.,  two  and  a  half  years,  returned  to  his 
northern  home,  having  formed  a  plan  for  extended  study,  which  he  was  prevented  from 
carrying  out  by  a  sickness  whicli  terminated  fatally  April  1.3,  1S47.  A»a  linguist,  Mr.  Bab- 
cock's  attainments  were  remarkable,  and,  had  he  lived,  he  would  have  attained  a  high 
rank  among  the  scholars  of  his  country. 

—  Visions  and  Voices.      12°,  pp.  vi,  240.     Hartford,  1849. 

Bacon,  (E.)  Aegri  Somnia :  Recreations  of  a  Sick  Room.  12°.  pp. 
xii,  107.     New  York,  1843. 

The  writer  says  :  "  The  following  articles,  as  their  title  purports,  literally  the  '  Recre- 
ations of  a  sick  room,'  long  protracted,  and  the  creations  of  much  weakness  and  infirmity 
have  appeared,  as  they  were  written,  in  a  daily  and  weekly  newspaper  under  somewhat 
unfavorable  circumstances  as  to  form  and  corjectness." 

—  Vacant  Hours.      12°,  pp.  61.     Utica,  1845. 
Bacon,  (^V.  T.) 

William  Thompson  Bacon  was  born  at  Woodbury,  Conn.,  August  24,  1814,  graduated 
at  Yale  in  1837,  and  in  1842  was  settled  as  a  Congregational  minister  in  'J'rumbuU,  Conn., 
"  As  a  poet,"  Everest  says  "  his  lighter  poems  possess  much  simplicity  and  grace.  He 
has  a  fine  perception  of  natural  beauty,  and  his  graver  productions  are  pervaded  by  a 
current  of  deeply  reflective  moral  and  religious  sentiment." 

—  Poems.     12°,  pp.  134.     Boston,  1839. 

—  Poems.     Lg.  8°,  pp.  214.     New  Haven,  1839. 

—  Same.     3d  Edition.      16°,  pp.  xvii,  214.     Boston.  1840. 

This  edition  of  Mr.  Bacon's  poems  has,  in  the  Introduction,  an  essay  on  the  proper 
office  of  the  poet. 

—  Same.     Poems.     12°,  pp.  x,  275.     Cambridge,  1848. 

Bags,  (J.  D.)  The  Fugitive  :  An  p:pic  Poem  in  one  canto.  By  P.  Vir- 
gilius  Maro.  Transhited  by  John  Dryden  Bags.  With  Notes  and 
Explanations.      12°,  pp.  vii,  44. 

This  poem  professes  to  have  been  "  communicated"  from  the  spirit  of  Virgil,  and  is  a 
satire  on  the  events  connected  with  the  rendition  of  the  fugitive  slave,  Anthony  Burns. 

Bailey,  (E.) 

Ebenezer  Bailey  was  born  in  Newbury,  Mass.,  and  graduated  at  Yale  in  1817.  "The 
Triumphs  of  Liberty  "  was  a  prize  ode.  recited  at  the  Boston  Theatre  in  1S25.    Kettell 


16  IIAKKIS    COLL?:CTION. 

Bailey,  (K.)  — Coutiuucd. 

says  :  "  It  is  a  chaste  and  spirited  production,  superior  to  anytiiingof  the  kind  which  our 
national  anniversaries  have  called  forth."  Mr.  B.  was,  for  several  years,  Trinoipal  of  a 
Ladies'  High  School  in  Boston.    He  died  in  IS'M. 

—  Triuinplis  of  Liberty.     8°,  pp.  8.     Boston,  1825. 

Bailey,  (P.  J.)     The  Angel  World,  etc.     10°,  pp.  114.     Boston,  1850. 
Bailey,  (Uraxia  Locke.) 

L'rania  Locke  Stoughton  was  born  at  Gill,  Franklin  county,  Mass.,  November  30,  1820, 
married  B.  Dk  Bailey,  of  Providence,  II.  I.,  June  10,  1847.  She  wrote  much  for  maga- 
zines, etc.  Several  of  her  shorter  poems  have  acquired  a  wide  reputation.  Among  these 
is  one  beginning,  "  The  Master  has  come  over  Jordan,"  which  was  set  to  music  at  the 
request  of  Rev.  Dr.  Goodell,  of  Constantinople,  and  has  been  introduced  into  tune  books 
in  this  and  other  countries.    Mrs.  B.  died  March  25,  1882. 

—  Star-Flowers.     1:^°,  pp.  152.     New  York,  1882. 

Baker,  (D.  P.)      Choice  Selections  from  Wah-hu-liali.     A  Tale  of  Lidian 
Life.     16°,  pp.  24.     Jackson,  Mich.,  1859. 

Baker,    (G.   A.,  Jr.)      Point-Lace    and   Diamonds.     Sq.  16°,  pp.   153. 
New  York,  1875.  • 

Baker,    (G.  M.)     Amateur   Dramas  for  Parlor  Tlieatricals,  etc.      16°, 
pp.  iv,  254.     Boston,   1867.  ' 

—  Om*  Twelve  Months'   Cruise.      A  Valedictory  delivered   before  the 

Mercantile    Library  Association,   Members'   Course,   May,   1866. 
4°,  pp.  16.     Boston,  1866. 

This  is  one  of  tifty  copies  printed  for  private  disposition,  and  is  an  elegant  little  quarto 
of  sixteen  pages. 

—  Valedictory  Poem.     Delivered  before  tlie  "  Members'  Course"  of  the 

Mercantile    Library    Association,    Wednesday,    April     15,    1865. 
Sm.  4°,  pp.  12.     Boston,  1865. 

Baker,   (S.)     Election    to    Eternal    Life,  etc.      12°,  pp.   24.     Millbury, 
"      Ma.ss.,  1833. 

Baldwin,  (J.  D.) 

.  John  Dennison  Baldwin  was  born  at  North  Stonington,  Conn.,  September  28,  1809. 
He  pursued  his  studies  in  part  at  Yale,  but  did  not  graduate.  The  college  in  18:«  con- 
ferred on  him  tlie  honorary  degree  of  A.  M.  He  read  law  and  divinity,  and  in  183i  became 
a  Congregationalist  minister.  Subsequently  he  was  a  journalist  in  Hartford,  Boston  and 
Worcester.  He  was  a  member  of  Congress  from  Massachusetts  from  ISCl  to  1870.  His 
death  occurred  at  Worcester,  July  7,  1883. 

—  The   Story  of  Raymond  Hill   and   other   Poems.     12°,  pp.   vi,   124. 

Boston,  1847. 


AMERICAN^    POETRY.  17 

Baldwyn,  (Augusta.)     Poems.      16°,  pp.  vi,  163.     Montreal,  18o9. 

Ball,    (B.    W.)      P21fin    Land:   and    other   Poem.s.      16°,    pp.   viii,    150. 
Boston,   1851. 

Ball,    The   Fancy.      (Anon.)     Said  to   be  W,  L.   Learned,   Esq.     8°, 
pp.  28.     Albany,  1846. 

Ball,  The  Officers',  etc.      (Anon.)     12°,  pp.  12.    Ballstown,  no  date  ; 
probably  1765. 

Ball,  The  Snoclace  ;  or.  Pill  Garlic  and  his  Friends.      (By  "The 
Spectator.")     8°,  pp.  72.     New  York,  1865. 

Ballad,  The  Bridal.     ("  Qiiilp,"  j9se«fZ.)     pp.78.     Norfolk,  1846. 

Gushing,  in  liis  "Dictionary  of  Literary  Disguises,"  gives  "  Quilp,  Jr.,"  William  H. 
Halstead.    Little  Pieces  :  Verse  and  Prose.    Norfolk,  Va.,  1868. 

Ballads.     A  small  Bound  Volmne.     8°.     No  place,  no  date. 

—  The  Book  of.     Edited  by  Gaultier,  and  Illustrated  by  Doyle,  Leech 

and  Crowquill.     Sm.  12°,  pp.  256.     Edinburgh  and  London,  1857. 

—  Christian.      (Anon.)      12°.  pp.  138.     New  York,  1840. 

—  Tiie  Illustrated  Book  of,  etc.     Edited  by  R.  W.  Griswold.     4°,  pp. 

164.     Philadelphia,  1844.     An  elegant  copy. 

Ballou,  (M.   M.) 

Maturin  M.  Halloa  was  born  in  Boston  in  1822,  and  was  editor  and  i)ropri<^tor  of 
"Ballou's  Pictorial"  and  "The  Flag  of  our  Union."  He  has  published  "History  of 
Cuba,"  etc. 

—  Miralda,  or  The  Justice  of  Tacon.     A  Drama.     12°,  pp.  29.     Boston, 

1858. 
Banagan,  (I.)      Avenia  :     A  Tragical   Poem   on   the  Oppression  of  the 
Human  Species,  etc.      18°,  pp.  x,  358.     Philadelphia.  1805. 

Bancroft,  (G.) 

George  Bancroft  was  born  in  Worcester,  Mass., October  3,  1800,  graduated  at  Harvard 
College  in  1817,  studied  in  Germany,  and  took  the  degree  of  Ph.  D.  at  Giittingen  in  1820, 
returned  to  the  United  States  in  1822,  and  has  devoted  the  most  of  his  life  to  literary  pur- 
suits,  especially  to  the  writing  of  "  The  History  of  the  United  States."  At  this  date  (I8M>) 
he  resides  in  Washington. 

—  Poems.      12°,  pj).  77.      Cambridge,  1823. 

This  copy  of  Mr.  Bancroft's  early  poems  in  tlie  "  Harris  Collection  "  is  in  perfect  con- 
dition, the  once  soiled  leaves  having  been  cleansed,  so  far  as  was  possible,  and  the  margin 
of  the  dedication  leaf,  which  was  removed  in  some  way,  replaced.    The  volume  is  bound 


18  HAKKis  collp:ction. 

Bancroft,  (G.)  —  Continued. 

in  half  red  morocco,  tlie  upper  edges  of  the  paper  gilded,  and  the  leaves  untrimnied.  The 
first  poem,  "  Expectation,"  portrays  the  feelings  of  the  tourist  as  he  leaves  his  home  for 
foreign  travel,  and  is  dated  Paris,  June,  1821.  Then  follow  six  poems  descriptive  of  scenes 
and  experiences  in  Switzerland  in  September  and  October,  1821.  Next  in  order  are  twelve 
poems  written  in  Italy  in  1822.  The  volume  concludes  with  "  Pictures  of  Rome,"  written  at 
Worcester,  Mass.,  July,  1823. 

Duyckinck  says  :  "  A  thin  volume  of  his  poems  witnesses  to  his  poetical  enthusiasm 
for  the  arts  and  nature,  as  he  traversed  the  ruins  of  Italy  and  the  sublime  scenery  of 
Switzerland." 

Banks  in  Danger,  or  New  York  in  an  Uproar  from  a  Greenwich 
Race.      18°,  pp.  13.     New  York,  1811. 

Banks  was  the  name  of  a  favorite  horse  belonging  to  "  a  gentleman  from  famed  Bor- 
deaux,"  residing  in  Greenwich,  N.  Y.  The  poem  is  somewhat  after  the  style  of  "John 
Gilpin." 

Banner,  The  Star  Spangled.  Barley's  Illustrations.  4°,  pp.  4.  New 
York,  1861. 

Bannister,  (N.  H.)  Putnam,  the  Iron  Son  of '76.  12°,  pp.  30.  Bos- 
ton, no  (late. 

Banquet,  The  Russian.  A  Drama.  (By  Hector  Snapdragon,  psewfZ.) 
16°,  pp.  12.     Boston,  about  1813. 

Barber,  (J.  W.)  Bunyan's  Pilgrim's  Progress.  Exhibited  in  a  Meta- 
morphosis, etc.      18°,  pp.  15.     Hartford,  1821. 

Bard,  The  American.  No.  I.  Ossian's  Poem  of  "  Colna-Dona,"  Here- 
dia's  "The  Land  of  the  Aztecs,"  and  a  Translation  from  a 
Genoese  Improvisatore,  "  The  Priests  of  California."  12°,  pp. 
16.     New  York,  1860. 

Barels,  (Anna.)  OP  HET  ZALIC  AFSTERVEN,  etc.  Sq.  8°,  pp. 
5.     Steenwyk,  no  date. 

This  is  a  Dutch  poem,  at  one  time  the  property  of  Miiller,  of  Amsterdam,  the  volume 
having  been  in  his  "  Libraire  Ancienne." 

Barker,  (J.  N.) 

James  Nelson  Barker,  an  American  dramatic  writer,  was  born  in  Philadelphia  in 
1784,  and  died  in  1858. 

—  How  to  Try  a  Lover.      16°,  pp.  67.     New  York,  1817. 

—  Marmion.     A  Drama.      18°,  pp.  vii,  79.     New  York,  1816. 

—  Superstition.     A  Tragedy.      12°,  pp.  68.     Philadelphia,  no  date. 

—  Tears  and   Smiles.     A  Comedy.      18°,  pp.  85.     Philadelphia,  1808. 

—  The  Indian  Princess.     18°,  pp.  74.     Philadelphia,  1808. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  19 

Barhydt,  (D.  p.)     Life.     18°,  pp.  89.     New  York.  1851. 
Barlow,  (J.) 

James,  not  Joel,  Barlow  was  tlie  author  of  the  poem,  the  title  of  which  is  given  below. 
A  note  written  with  inl£  on  page  fourth  says  :  "  This  is  a  rather  shameful  satire  on  poor 
Paekenham,  who  had  in  some  way  affronted  the  poet  and  conceited  author,  Mr.  Barlow, 
a  sortof  English  Grammar  School-master."  It  professes  to  have  been  written  by  Thomas 
Moore,  whose  name  appears  on  the  title-page  as  its  author.  There  is,  however,  every  rea- 
son to  believe  that  the  real  writer  was  Barlow. 

—  The  Peacock,  the  IJaboon,  and  the  Money.spinner8 :    a   newly  dis- 

covered Poem  by  Thomas  Moore,  Esq.    18°,  pp.  18.    Mexico,  1841 . 

Barlow,  (J.) 

Joel  Barlow,  LL.  D.,  was  born  at  Reading,  Fairfield  county,  Conn.,  in  1755,  studied  at 
Dartmouth  College  for  a  part  of  the  course,  and  graduated  at  Yale  College  in  1778.  He 
served  for  a  time  as  Chaplain  in  the  American  army  in  the  war  of  the  Revolution.  While 
occupying  this  position  he  wrote  "  The  Vision  of  Columbia,"  which  was  the  basis  of  his 
great  national  epic,  "  The  Columbiad."  After  the  war  he  studied  law,  and  in  1785  was 
admitted  to  the  bar.  In  1788  he  went  to  Europe,  and  was  a  deeply  interested  observer  of 
the  events  connected  with  the  French  Revolution.  In  1792  he  published  "  The  Conspiracy 
of  Kings,"  suggested  by  the  coalition  of  the  European  Sovereigns  against  Republican 
France.  While  residing  in  C'hamberry,  France,  in  the  winter  of  1793-94,  he  wrote  his  pop- 
ular poem,  "Hasty  I'udding."  In  1795  he  was  appointed  Consul  to  Algiers.  In  1797  he 
returned  to  Paris,  where  he  embarked  in  commercial  speculations,  and  became  wealthy. 
He  continued  his  residence  in  Paris  until  1805,  when  he  returned  to  the  United  States  and 
lookup  his  residence  in  Washington,  where  he  built  an  elegant  mansion,  to  which  he  gave 
the  name  of  "  Kalorama."  In  1808  he  published  his  "Columbiad."  In  1811  he  w.as 
appointed  Minister  to  France,  where,  in  the  discharge  of  his  official  duties,  he  died  at  Zar- 
nowitch,  near  Cracow,  December  22, 1812. 

—  An  Elegy  on  the  kite  Hon.  Titus  Homer,  Esq.     8°,  pp.  lo.     Hart- 

ford, 1780. 

—  Poem  spoken  at  Yale   Commencement,   September   12,  1781.      12°, 

J  p.  IG.      Hartford,  no  date. 

—  Hasty  Pudding.      8°,  pp.  14.      Stockbridge,  Mass.,  17;»7. 

Other  editions  in  the  "  Collection  "  are  New  Haven,  1790 ;  Salem,  1799 ;  New  York,  12^, 
no  date;  Brooklyn,  1833;  Xew  York,  1847,  and  New  York,  1850. 

—  Reply  to  H.  Gregoire.       (Not  a   poem.)      8°,  pp.  14.     Washington, 

1809. 

—  The  Columbiad.     8°,  pp.  xiv,  426.      London,  1809. 

—  Same.     2  vols.     12°,  pp.  258,  218.     Philadelphia,  1809. 

—  Same.      In  one  vol.      8°,  pp.  xv,  448.      Washington,  1825. 

—  The  Conspiracy  of  Kings.     4°,  pp.  20,  London,  1792. 

—  Same.     4°,  pp.  20.     London,  1792. 

—  Same.     8°,  pp.  30.     Newburyport,  Mass.,  1794. 

—  The  Vision  of  Columbus.     8°,  pp.  xx,  244.     Hartford,  1787. 

6 


20  IIAERIS    COLLECTION. 

Baki.ow.  (.1.)  —  Confiiiued. 

—  Till!  Vision  of  Columbus.     2d  Edition.     12°,  pp.  258.    Hartford,  1787. 

—  baiue.     8°.     Paris,  17!)3. 

—  Same,     oth  J^dition.     8°.      London,  1794. 

—  Same.      18°.     Baltimore,  1814. 

—  Same.      18°.     Baltimore,  1816. 

—  Same.      16°.   Centreville,  Ind.,  1824. 

Baulc.w,  (W.  S.)      Tlie  Voice  of  Prayer.     8°,  pp.  30.     New  York,  1871. 

Barnes,  (Charlotte  M.  S.)  Plays,  Prose  and  Poetry.  16°,  pp.  489. 
Philadelphia,  1848. 

Barn  Yard  Rhymes  :  Showing  what  opinions  the  Turkey,  the  Cock,  the 
Goose  and  the  Duck  entertain  of  AUopathia,  Homopathia,  Electro- 
Galvanism  and  the  Animalcule  Doctrines.  8°,  pp.  80.  New  York, 
1838. 

Barnes,  (W.)  Poems  in  the  Dorset  Dialect.  16°,  pp.  viii,  207.  Bos- 
ton, 1864. 

Barnett,  (M.)     Y^ankee  Peddler  ;  or.  Old  Times  in  Virginia.     A  Farce. 

12°,  pp.  16.     New  York,  no  date. 
Barnitz,  (A.  T.  S.) 

Albert  Ti-ovillo  Siders  Baruitz  was  born  in  Bedford  county,  Pa.,  March  10,  1833,  and 
when  an  infant  removed  to  Crawford  county,  Ohio.  He  studied  law  in  Cleveland,  and  was 
a  teacher  of  elocution  in  that  city. 

—  The  Mystic  Delvings.      12°,  pp.  288.     Cincinnati,  1857. 

Barrett,  (J.  D.)  Concord:  A  Poem  delivered  before  the  Lyceum, 
Concord,  Mass.,  January  22,  1851.     12°,  pp.  32.     Boston,  1851. 

Barrett,   (P.)     Flowers  by  the  Way-Side.     A  Book  for  Children  and 

Youth.      16°,  pp.  xi,  144.     Richmond,  1856. 
Barrett,  (S.  A.)      Maintonomah,  etc.      12°.     New  York,  1849. 

Barry,  (G.)  Poems  on  Several  Occasions.  18°,  pp.  101.  Baltimore, 
1807. 

The  author,  Garrett  Barry,  Esq.,  says  in  the  advertisement  in  this  volume  :  "  Many  of 
the  following  poems  were  written  before  tiie  author  attained  his  sixteenth  year." 

Barry,  (S.)  The  Dutchman's  Ghost;  or,  All  Right.  A  Farce.  12°, 
pp.  16.     New  York,  no  date. 

—  The    Persecuted    Dutchman ;    or.  The  Original   John  Schmidt.     A 

Farce.      12°,  pp.  15.     New  York,  no  date. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  21 

Bartlett,    (E.) 

Elisha  Bartlett  was  born  in  Sniithfield,  It  I.,  in  1805,  and  was  graduated  from  the 
Medical  Department  in  Brown  University  in  1826,  and  practiced  in  Lowell,  Mass.  He  was 
a  professor  in  the  following  institutions  :  Dartmouth  College,  1839;  Transylvania  Univer- 
sity, Ky.,  1841;  University  of  Maryland,  1844;  a  second  time  at  Transylvania,  1840;  Louis- 
ville, 1849;  University  of  Xew  York,  1850.  and  in  the  New  York  College  of  Physicians  and 
Surgeons  in  1851,  to  his  death,  July  19,  1855. 

—  Simple   Settings,   in  Verse,   for   Six  Portraits  and    Pictures.      From 

Mr.  Dickens'  Gallery.      16°,  pp.  80.     Boston,  1855. 
Bartlett,  (J.) 

Joseph  Bartlett,  born  in  1763,  graduated  at  Harvard  in  1782,  published  an  edition  of 
his  poems  in'1823,  dedicated  to  John  Quincy  Adams,  in  which  may  be  found  "  Aphorisms 
on  Men,  Manners,  Principles  and  Things."    He  died  in  1827. 

—  A   Poem,   etc.     8°,    pp.    20.     Delivered    in  Boston.  July  3,  1823. 

Boston,  1823. 

—  Aphorisms  on   Men,  Manners,  Principles  and  Things,  etc.      12°,  pp. 

X,  148.     Boston,  1823. 
Bartlett,  (S.  R.)      Concord  Fight.      12°,  pp.  33.     Boston,  1860. 
Bartley,  (J.  A.) 

James  Avis  Bartley,  of  Orange  county,  Va.,  dedicates  this  volume  to  his  father.  He 
addresses  a  Prefiitory  Letter  to  the  public,  in  which  he  says :  "  These  poems  were  written 
with  pleasure;  if  they  be  read  witli  pleasure,  I  shall  be  requited  amply."  In  a  somewhat 
bellicose  spirit  he  remarks  in  this  letter;  "  If  critics  censure  me  unjustly  or  intemper- 
ately,  I  will  tight  them." 

—  Lays  of  Ancient  Virginia,  etc.     12°,  pp.  203.     Kichmond,  185.^. 

Barton,  (A.)     The  Disappointment;  or,  The  Force  of  Credulity.      16°, 
pp.  iv,  95.     Philadelphia,  171)6. 

Bartrum,    (J.    P.)       The    Psalms    newly   Paraplirased.      18°,    pp.    196. 

Boston,   1833. 
Barrymore,  (W.)     The    Snow    Storm;  or,   Lowina  of  Tobolsliow.     A 

Melo-Dramatick  Romance.      16°,  pp.  36.     Baltimore,  1833. 
Batchelder,  (E.) 

Eugene  Batchelder  was  born  in  New  Ipswich,  N.  II.,  and  graduated  at  the  Harvard 
Law  School  in  1845.    He  resided  in  Cambridge,  Mass.,  and  died  in  Dover,  N.  II. 

—  A   Romance    of   the    Fashionable   World.       16°,    i)p.    180.     lioston, 

1857. 

—  Border   Adventures  ;   or,  The  Romantic   lucitk'nts  of  a  New  England 

Town,  etc.      12°,  pp.  48.      Boston,  1851. 

—  Brother  Jonathan's  Welcome  to  Kossuth.     8°,  pp.  27.     Boston,  1852. 


22  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

t 

Batcheldkk,  (S.,  Jk.)  Poetry  of  the  Bells.  A  Collection  of  Poems  by 
Mrs.  Hemans,  A.  C.  Coxe,  J.  R.  Lowell,  Charles  Lamb,  H.  W. 
Lontrfellow,  O.  W.  Holmes,  A.  Tennyson,  etc.  12°,  pp.  72.  Bos- 
ton, 1858. 

Bateman,  (Mrs.  Sidnfa"  F.)  Self:  An  Original  Comedy.  12°,  pp.  46. 
New  York,  1856. 

Bates,  (D.) 

D.avid  Bates  was  born  at  Indian  Hill,  Hamilton  county,  Ohio,  March  0, 1809.  His  early 
youth  was  spent  on  a  farm.  He  then  enfjaged  in  mercantile  pursuits,  and  finally  took  up 
his  residence  in  Philadelphia,  becoming  a  member  of  a  business  firm  in  that  city.  "  He 
wrote  for  most  of  the  prominent  magazines  and  periodicals,  and  enjoyed  the  confidence 
and  appreciation  of  men  of  letters."    He  died  January  as,  1870. 

—  Poetical  Works.     Edited  by  his  son,  Stockton  Bates.      16°,  pp.  xii, 

276.     Philadelphia,  1870. 

—  The  Eolian.      12°,  pp.  xi,  210.     Philadelphia,  1849. 

Bates,  (S.)      Dream  Life,  etc.      16°,  pp.  120.     Philadelphia,  1872. 

—  Party  and  its  Experiments.     Read  before  the  Harrison  Democrats  of 

East  Boston,  September  8,  1840.     12°,  pp.  24.     Boston,  1840, 

Battekshall,  (W.  W.)  Yale  Valedictory  Poem,  Jnne  22,  1864.  8°, 
pp.  16.     New  Haven,  1864. 

Battersok,  (H.  G.,  D.  D.)  Christmas  Carols.  18°,  pp.  72.  Philadel- 
phia, 1877. 

Battle  of  Aughkim  ;  or,  The  Fall  of  Monsieur  St,  Ruth.  (Anon.) 
16°,  pp.  47.     Boston,  1848. 

Battles  of  Joshua,  The.      (Anon.)     12°,  pp.  12.     Philadelphia,  1843. 

Baxter,  (Lydia.)  Gems  by  the  Wayside  ;  or,  Religious  and  Domestic 
Poems.      12°,  pp.  xii,  283.     New  York,  1855. 

Baxter,  (W.)     Poems.     12°,  pp.  iv,  244.     Cambridge,  1852. 

Bay  Psalm  Book.  The  Whole  Booke  of  Psalmes,  Faithfully  Translated 
into  English  Metre.  Whereunto  is  prefixed  a  discourse  declaring 
not  only  the  lawfuUness,  but  also  the  necessity  of  the  heavenly  Ordi- 
nance of  Singing  Scripture  Psalmes  in  the  Churches  of  God.    " 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  23 

Bay  Psalm  Book — Continued. 

Coll.  III. 

Let  the  Word  of  God  dwell  ■plenteovsly  in  you,  in  all  luisdome, 
teaching  and  exhorting  one  another  in  Psalms,  Himnes  and  Spirit- 
uall  Songs,  singing  to  the  Lord  vjith  grace  in  yotir  hearts. 

lames  V. 

If  any  be  afflicted,  let  him  pray.      And  if  any  he  merry,  let  him 

sing  psalms. 

Imprinted  1640. 

The  above  is  the  original  title  of  the  Bay  Psalm  Book.  The  title 
of  the  reprint  is  as  follows  :  A  Literal  Reprint  of  the  Bay  Psalm 
Book,  being  the  earliest  New  England  Version  of  the  Psalms,  and 
the  First  Book  Printed  in  America.  Fifty  copies  for  subscribers. 
8°,  not  paged.  Cambridge  :  Printed  for  Charles  B.  Richardson, 
New  York,  1862. 

This  reprint,  of  which  there  are  two  copies  in  "  The  Harris  Collection,"  was  made  at 
the  Riverside  Press,  Cambridge,  under  the  supervision  of  Dr.  Nathaniel  B.  Shurtleff, 
and  is  an  exact  copy,  in  the  minutest  particular,  of  the  original  printed  in  1640.  One  copy 
was  printed  on  parchment;  live  on  India  paper;  fifteen  on  thick  paper  (of  which  the 
Public  Library  of  Boston  has  one),  and  fifty  on  common  paper.  Of  the  two  copies  in 
"  The  Harris  Collection,"  one  is  on  thick  paper,  and  the  other  on  coniiiion  paper. 

The  Bay  Psalm  Book,  being  the  first  book  published  in  the  United  States,  has,  for 
bibliophiles,  a  peculiar  interest.  It  was  the  joint  production  of  the  Rev.  Richard  Mather, 
of  Dorchester,  the  Rev.  Thomas  Weld,  and  the  Rev.  .John  Eliot,  "persons  eminently 
qualified  for  the  task,  as  being  familiar  with  the  Hebrew  and  Greek  languages."  "  If 
the  verses  are  not  always  so  smooth  and  elegant  as  some  may  desire  or  expect,"  say  the 
translators,  "let  them  consider  that  God's  Altar  needs  not  our  pollishings;  for  wee 
have  respected  rather  a  plaine  translation,  than  to  smooth  our  verses  with  the  sweetness 
of  any  paraphrase ;  and  we  have  attended  conscience  rather  than  elegance,  fidelity  rather 
than  poetry,  in  translating  the  hebrew  words  into  english  language." 

Prof.  Moses  Coit  Tyler,  in  his  History  of  American  Literature,  Vol.  I,  p.  270,  says : 
"  The  verses,  indeed,  seem  to  have  been  hammered  out  on  an  anvil,  by  blows  from  a 
blacksmith's  sledge.  Everywhere  in  the  book  is  manifest  the  agony  it  cost  the  writer, 
to  find  two  words  that  would  rhyme  more  or  less;  and  so  often  as  this  arduous  feat  is 
achieved,  the  poetic  athlete  appears  to  pause  awhile  from  sheer  exluiustion,  panting 
heavily  for  breath." 

The  following  is  a  specimen  taken  from  the  29th  Psalm  : 

"  The  mighty  voyce  of  lehovah  Gods  voyce  breaks  Cedars  :  yea  God  breaks 

upon  tlie  water  is  Cedars  of  Lebanus 

the  God  of  glory  thundereth  He  makes  them  like  a  calfe  to  skip 

God  on  great  waters  is,  the  mountttiiie  I>ebanon, 

lehovah's  voyce  is  powerfull  and  like  to  a  young  Vnicorne 

Gods  voyce  is  glorious  the  hill  of  Syrion." 

The  Hon.  John  R.  Bartlctt  says  :  "  The  original  edition  of  the  Bay  Psalm  Book  was 
the  first  book  printed  in  the  British  American  Colonies.    It  is  of  excessive  rarity.    But 


24  HARK  IS    COLLECTION. 

Bay  Psalm  Book. —  Continued. 

nine  copies  only  are  known  to  be  extant,  distributed  as  follows:  1.  Harvard  University , 
Cambridge,  JIass.  (imperfect).  2  and  3.  The  Boston  Public  Library.  4.  >Irs.  George 
Livermore,  Cambridge,  Mass.  5.  John  Carter  Brown  Library,  Providence,  R.  L  6.  The 
American  Antiiiuarian  Society,  Worcester,  Mass.  (imiierfect).  7.  Cornelius  Vanderbilt, 
New  York.  8.  The  Bodleian  Library,  Oxford.  0.  The  Lenox  Library,  New  York.  So 
that  there  are  really  but  seven  perfect  copies  of  the  book." 

The  John  Carter  Brown  copy  belonged  originally  to  the  Rev.  Richard  Mather,  one 
of  its  authors  (whose  well  known  autograph  it  contains  in  many  places),  declaring  it  to 
be  "  His  Booke."  It  subsequently  came  into  the  hands  of  the  Rev.  Thomas  Prince,  the 
friend  and  disciple  of  Cotton  Mather,  Richard's  grandson.  By  Prince  it  was  made  a  part 
of  his  famous  New  England  Library,  as  it  appears  by  his  book-plate,  on  the  reverse 
of  the  title-page.  From  the  Prince  Library  it  passed  by  way  of  exchange  into  the  hands 
of  Dr.  Shurtleff,  by  whose  heirs  it  was  sold  at  auction  in  Boston,  October  1-2, 1876,  and 
purchased  by  the  late  C.  Fiske  Harris,  of  Providence,  for  $1,025.  Upon  the  decease  of 
Mr.  Harris,  in  October,  1881,  his  line  library  was  dispersed,  and  the  Bay  Psalm  Book 
purchased  by  its  present  owner.  A  copy  was  purchased  by  Cornelius  Vanderbilt,  at  the 
"  Brinley  sale,"  for  $1,200.     (See  Tyler's  Hist.  Am.  Lit.,  vol.  1,  pp.  274-77.) 

Beach,    (L.)     Jonathan  Postfree  ;  or,  The  Honest  Yankee.     A  Musical 
Farce.      18°,  pp.  38.     New  York,  1809. 

Beach,  (S.  B.) 

"  The  hint  for  the  fable  of  the  following  poem,"  says  the  author,  "  was  lurnished  by 
the  numerous  ruins  which  yet  remain  visible  in  the  interior  of  North  America,  and  partic- 
ularly in  the  vicinity  of  the  Ohio  and  the  Mississippi;  ruins  which  demonstrate  that,  long 
anterior  to  the  first  voyage  of  Columbus,  the  section  of  country  wliicli  1  have  designated 
was  inhabited  by  a  nation  more  civilized  tlian  the  wandering  tribes  in  whose  possession  it 
was  found  by  the  English  and  French."  Tlie  poem  is  founded  on  the  supposition  that  in 
the  ninth  century  a  Norwegian  Chief  colonized  a  section  of  country  near  the  junction  of 
the  Ohio  and  the  Mississippi  rivers. 

—  Escalala:  An  American  Tale.     12°,  pp.  vi,  109.     Utica,  1824. 
Beasley,  (F.  W.) 

Frederic  Williamson  Beasley,  D.  D.,  was  born  in  1807  at  Albany,  N.  Y.,  graduated 
at  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  in  1827,  was  ordained  a  Protestant  Episcopal  minister, 
and  settled  in  Eddington,  Pa.  Under  the  signature  of  Caspar  Almore  he  wrote  "  Papers 
from  Overlook  House."    He  died  in  Philadelphia  county  in  1878. 

—  Henry  Venola,  the  Duellist.      12°,  pp.  viii,  64.     Philadelphia,  1841. 

Beautiful  World,  The.      A   Magazine,  etc.     Vol.  IV.      No   2.     8°, 
pp.  24.     Boston,  1874. 

Beecher.     Ye  Tilt  on  ;  or.  Ye  Muddle  of  Ye  Mutual  Friends.     A  Bur- 
leisque  in  Verse.      12°,  pp.  24.     New  York,  no  date. 

Beers,  (Ethel  Lynx.)     All  Quiet  Along  the  Potomac,  etc.    12°,  pp.  352. 
Philadelphia,  1879. 


AMEEICAX    POETRY.  25 

Behold  the  Mother,  etc.  (By  a  Clergyman  of  Maryland.  Anon.) 
2d  Edition.     24°,  pp.  91.     Baltimore,  1864. 

Beldazzle's  Bachelor  "Studies."  (Anon.)  Sq.  16°.  pp.  71.  New 
York,  1874. 

Belisle,  (D.  W.)  The  Parterre.  A  Collection  of  Flowers  culled  by 
the  AVaysidc.      18°,  pp.  128.     Philadelphia.  1849. 

Belknap,  (J.,  D.  D.) 

Jeremy  Belknap  was  born  in  Boston,. June  4,  1744,  graduated  at  Harvard  in  1702,  was 
pastor  of  a  Congregational  church  in  Dover,  N.  H.,  1707-77,  and  in  Boston  till  his  death  in 
1797. 

—  Polyanthos.     5  vols.      10°.   pp.  287,   283,  285,  288,   285.     Boston, 

1806. 

—  Sacred  Poetry.      18°,  pp.  2G2.     Boston,  1804. 

—  Same.     5th  Edition.     Boston,  1808. 

—  Same.     Boston,  1808. 

—  Same.     Boston,  1817. 

—  Same.     Boston,  1820. 

Bell,  (Mrs.  Emma  M.)  Poems.  16°,  pp.  viii,  197.  Philadelphia, 
1872. 

Bell,  (Rosalie.)  Lilies  and  Violets  ;  or,  Thoughts  in  Prose  and  Verse 
on  the  True  Graces  of  Maidenhood.  12°,  pp.  vii,  442.  New 
York,  Boston  and  Cincinnati,  1855. 

Bell,  Schiller's  Song  of.  Translated  hy  W.  H.  Furness,  and  other 
German  Poems  by  F.  H.  Hedge.  With  sixteen  ilhistrations. 
12°,  no  paging.      Philadelphia,  1851. 

Benedict,  (A.)  Poem.  Yale  College,  July  1,  1821.  8°,  pp.  15.  New- 
Haven,  1821. 

Benedict,   (D.) 

David  Benedict  was  born  at  Norwalk,  Conn.,  October  10,  1779,  graduated  at  Brown 
University  in  1S0(J,  and  for  many  years  was  a  minister  in  the  Baptist  denomination,  and 
was  known  as  "  The  Baptist  Historian."  At  the  advanced  age  of  9.5  he  published  a  "  His- 
tory of  the  Donatists."    He  died  in  1S74. 

—  Poem.      8°,  pp.  19.      Boston,  1807. 
Benedict,  (F.  L.) 

Mrs.  Ann  .S.  Stepliens  wrote  the  preface  to  tliis  volume.  .She  says  that  when  slie  was 
co-editor  of  "  Peterson's  Ladies'  National  Magazine,"  she  became  the  recipient  of  several 


26  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

Benedict,  F.  L.  —  Continued. 

poems  and  stories  sent  anonymously.  Tlie  author  was  discovered  to  be  a  lad  not  over 
sixteen  years  of  age  residing  in  the  Wyoming  Valley.  It  was  ascertained  that  subse- 
quently lie  went  abroad.  On  his  return  he  gathered  up  his  poems,  written,  many  of  them, 
in  the  Old  World,  and  they  are  published  in  this  volume. 

—  The  Shadow  Worshiper,  etc.      12°,  pp.  viii,  1<)7.     New  York,  1857. 
Benjamin,   (P.) 

Park  IJenjaniin  was  born  at  Demarara,  in  British  Guiana,  came  to  the  United  States 
in  early  life,  studied  for  a  time  at  Harvard,  graduated  at  Washington,  now  Trinity,  Col- 
lege, Hartford,  in  1829;  studied  law,  but  preferred  the  profession  of  letters;  was  a  jour- 
nalist in  New  York;  was  associated  for  a  time  with  C.  F.  Hoffmann,  then  with  Horace 
Greeley  in  the  editorship  of  The  Xetc  Yorker,  and  wrote  much  for  various  periodicals.  He 
died  in  1804. 

—  Infatuation.     Delivered   before   the  Boston    Mercantile  Association, 

October  9,  1844.     8°,  pp.  31.     Boston,  1844. 

Benjamin,  (S.  G.  W.) 

Samuel  Green  Wheeler  Benjamin  was  born  in  Greece  in  1840.  He  became  early  dis- 
tinguished as  an  artist.  He  wrote,  in  addition  to  the  works  whose  titles  are  here  given, 
"  The  Atlantic  Islands,"  "  Contemporary  Art  in  Europe,"  "Art  in  America,"  etc.  In  188  4 
he  received  an  appointment  as  United  States  Minister  to  Persia. 

—  Constantipole.      The    Isle  of   Pearls,    etc.       16°,   pp.    96.      Boston, 

1860. 

—  Ode  on  the  Death  of  Abraham  Lincoln.      12°,  pp.  1.5.     Boston,  1865  . 

Bennett,  (E.)     The  Brigand.      16°,  pp.  36.      New  York,  1842. 

Bennett,  (Emily  F.  B.)     Poems.     8°,  pp.  262.     New  York,  1865. 

—  Songs  of  the  Rivers.      12°,  pp.  262.     New  York,  1865. 

Bennison,  (Mrs.  D.  M.)      Poems.     18°,  pp.  iv,  144.     Boston,  1847. 

Benson,  (M.)  Love  and  Money  ;  or,  The  Fair  Caledonian.  A  Farce  in 
Two  Acts.     18°,  pp.  18.     New  York,  1813. 

Benson,  (C.)     Anacreontics.     Sq.  12°,  pp.  75.      New  York,  1872. 

Benson,  (E.)  Sketch  of  Gaspara  Stampa,  with  selections  from  her  Son- 
nets. Translated  by  George  Fleming.  16°,  pp.  84.  Boston, 
1881. 

Gaspara  Stampa,  called  "  The  Sappho  of  Venice,"  was  an  Italian  poetess  born  at 
Padua  about  1524.  She  wrote  under  the  assumed  name  of  Anasilla,  from  Anasso,  the 
ancient  name  of  the  Piave.  A  victim  of  unrequited  love  she  died,  as  is  supposed,  by  her 
own  hands,  at  Venice  in  1554. 

Bergh,  (H.)  "Married  Off."  (A  Newport  Sketclx.  With  Comic 
lUu-strations.)      12°,  pp.  54.     New  York,  1862. 


AMERICAX    POETRY.  27 

Berxard,  (B.)  The  Balance  of  Comfort.  12°,  pp.  32.  London,  no 
date. 

Berxard,  (W.  B.)  Plays.  1G°,  viz.  :  His  Last  Legs,'  pp.  41.  The 
Passing  Cloud,  pp.  59.  The  L"ish  Attorney,  pp.  38.  The  Ner- 
vous Man,  pp.  45.  The  Evil  Genius,  pp.  48.  The  Middy 
Ashore,  pp.  21.  The  Mummy,  pp.  24.  Platonic  Attachments, 
pp.  24.  St.  Mary's  Eve,  pp.  39.  New  York,  Boston  and  Lon- 
don, no  date. 

Berry,  (Mrs.  Stephen.)     The  Snow  Flakes.     16°,  pp.  23.     Portland, 

1868. 
Best,  (L.)      The  Planet;    A   Song  of  a   Distant  World.'     16°,  pp.  161. 

Cambridge,  1869. 

Bethune,  (G.  W.) 

George  W.  Bethune,  D.  D.,  was  born  in  the  city  of  New  York  in  1805,  graduated  at 
Dickinson  College  in  1822,  and  at  the  Princeton  Theological  Seminary  in  1825,  and  was 
the  minister  of  churches  in  Rhinebeck,  N.  Y.,  Utica,  N.  Y'.,  Philadelphia  and  Brooklyn. 
He  died  in  Florence,  Italy,  April  28,  1862.  "  Dr.  B.  was  distinguished  for  his  line  taste,  his 
varied  culture,  and  his  love  of  nature." 

—  Lays  of  Love  and  Faith.     Lg.  8°,  pp.  184.     Philadelphia,  1847. 

Bettner,  (G.,  M.  D.)  Harmoniae  Ca?lestes  ;  or.  Christian  Melodies. 
12°,  pp.  viii,  147.     New  York,  1833. 

A  presentation  copy  to  Mrs.  Sigourney. 

Better  Sort,  The  ;  or.  The  Girl  of  Spirit.     A  Farce.     8°,  pp.  iv, 

80.     Boston,  1789. 

Beveridge,  (J.) 

JoJin  Beveridge  was  born  in  Scotland,  and,  for  a  time,  was  a  schoolmaster  in  Edin- 
burgh. He  removed  to  New  England  in  1752,  where  he  resided  five  years.  In  1758  he  was 
appointed  Professor  of  Languages  in  the  College  and  Academy  of  Philadelphia. 

Epistolae  Familiares  et  alia  Quaedam  Miscellanea.  Familiar  Epis- 
tles, and  other  Miscellaneous  Pieces.  Wrote  originally  in  Latin 
Verse.  To  which  are  added  several  Translations  into  English 
Verse,  by  different  hands,  etc.  12°,  pp.  xi,  88.  Philadelphia, 
1765.     A  rare  copy,  elegantly  bound. 

BiDDLE,    (H.  P.) 

Horace  P.  Biddle  was  born  in  Fairfield  county,  Ohio,  about  the  year  1818,  received  a 
good  education,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  April,  1839.  He  settled  in  Logansport, 
Ind.,  in  October  of  the  same  year,  which  became  his  permanent  residence.    He  contributed 

7 


28  IIARKIS    COLLECTION. 

BiDDLE,  (H.  r.)  —  Continued. 

to  several  periodicals  articles  in  prose  and  poetry.  A  second  edition  of  his  "  A  Few 
Poems  "  was  highly  commended  by  Washington  Irving.  For  six  years,  1846-52,  he  was 
Presiding  Judge  of  the  Eighth  Judicial  Circuit  Court,  Ohio,  and  was  chosen  to  fill  other 
offices  of  trust  and  honor.    His  residence  is  still  in  Logansport. 

—  A  Few  Poems.     12°,  pp.  240.     Cincinnati,  1858. 

—  Same.      1G°,  pp.  xvi,  3-11.     New  York,  18G8. 

BiDDLE,    (N.) 

Nicholas  Biddle  was  born  in  I'hiladelphia  in  1786,  graduated  at  Princeton  College  in 
1801,  and,  from  ISa.'?  to  IS,"!'.*,  was  President  of  the  United  States  Bank.  His  literary  taste 
was  of  a  most  marked  character  for  excellence.  "His  works,"  as  Allibone  remarks, 
"  evince  great  vigor  of  mind,  and  classical  taste  of  no  ordinary  character."    He  died  in 

1844. 

—  Ode  to  Bogle.     4°,  pp.  8.     Philadelphia.     Privately  printed. 
BiGELOW,  (A.)     The  Sabbath.      12°,  pp.  vi,  56.     AVorcester,  1842. 

BlGELO\V,    (J.,  M.  D.) 

Jacob  Bigelow  was  born  at  Sudbury,  Mass.,  in  1787,  graduated  at  Harvard  in  1806, 
received  the  degree  of  M.  D.  from  the  Pennsylvania  Medical  School  in  1810,  for  many 
years  was  physician  to  the  Massachusetts  General  Hospital,  was  Kumford  Professor  of 
Materia  Medica,  etc.,  in  Harvard.  As  the  author  of  several  medical  and  botanical 
works.  Dr.  B.  acquired  great  reputation.  He  had  much  to  do  in  the  founding  of  Mt. 
Auburn  Cemetery,  and  displayed  much  taste  in  laying  out  the  grounds,  designing  the  gate- 
way, etc.  He  was  also  the  author  of  several  poems,  some  of  them  of  a  humorous  charac- 
ter.   His  death  occurred  January  10,  1870,  at  the  great  age  of  02  years. 

—  Eolopesis.      American    Rejected   Addresses.     12°,  pp.   240.     New 

York,  1855. 

—  Phi   Beta  Kappa  Poem,  Harvard,  Angust   29,   1811.      8°,   pp.    15. 

Boston,  1811. 

—  Same.     Salem,  1811. 

Bigelow,  (Mrs.  Marion  A.)     The  Northern  Harp,  etc.     16°,  pp.  400. 
New  York,  1853. 

Biglow,  (W.) 

William  Biglow  was  born  in  Natick,  Mass.,  in  1773,  graduated  at  Harvard  in  1794,  and 
subsequently  became  Principal  of  the  Boston  Latin  School,  which,  for  several  years,  he 
conducted  with  distinguished  success.  Among  his  pupils  Edward  Everett  held  a  high 
rank.  Several  text-books  were  prepared  by  him  for  the  use  of  his  own  scholars.  He  wrote 
much  for  the  periodical  press  ;  also  histories  of  the  towns  of  Natick  and  Sherburne.  His 
death  occurred  in  1844. 

—  Poem  on  Intempei'ance.     12°,  pp.  12.     Cambridge,  1834. 

—  The  Re-Recommencement.     8°,  pp.  8.     Salem,  1812. 


AMERICAN    rOETEY.  29 

BiGLOW,  (W.)  —  Continued. 

—  Sawney,  Redivivus  et  Restauratus  ;  or,  Miscellaneous  Verses.     18°, 

pp.  36.     Boston,  181G. 

Several  of  the  poems  were  written  when  the  author  was  in  Harvard  College. 

BiGKEY,  (M.  F.)  The  Forest  Pilgrims,  etc.  12°,  pp.  xii,  258.  New 
Orleans  and  New  York,  1867. 

Bird,  (M.  B.)  The  Victorious.  A  Small  Poem  on  the  Assassination  of 
President  Lincoln.      16°,  pp.  xvii,  57.     Kingston,  Jamaica,  1866. 

Bird  of  Birds;  ok,  A  Musical  Medley.  (Anon.)  18°,  pp.  141. 
New  York,  1818. 

Bishop,  (J.)      A  Poem  on  the  Maine  Law.      18°,  pp.  15.     Pawtucket, 

1853. 
Bishop,   (L.)      Teuchsa    Grondie.     A    Legendary   Poem.     8°,  pp.  446. 

Albany,  1870. 

Bishop,  (Mrs.  Harriet  E.)  Minnesota.  Then  and  Now.  16°,  pp.  97. 
St.  Paul,  1869. 

Bishop,  (P.  P.)     Liberty's  Ordeal.     16°,  pp.  128.     New  York,  1864. 

Mr.  Bishop  dedicates  his  poem  to  Hon.  Jesse  P.  Bishop.  He  says  :  "  I  have  written 
this  poem  because  of  my  belief  that,  in  times  like  these,  an  American  citizen  should  bring 
all  his  faculties  to  the  support  of  his  government." 

BissELL,  (C.)  Phi  Beta  Kappa  Poem  at  Yale,  July  24,  1861.  16°,  pp. 
18.     New  Haven,  1861. 

—  The  Panic,  as  seen  from  Parnassus,  etc.     12°,  pp.  286.     New  York, 

1860. 

Blackamore  in  thk  Wood  ;  or.  A  Lamentable  Ballad  on  the  Trag- 
ical End  of  a  Gallant  Lord  and  Virtuous  Lady,  etc. 
(Anon.)      16°.  pp.  12.     New  Haven,  1802. 

Blackwell,  (R.)  Original  Acrostics  on  some  of  the  States  and  Presi- 
dents of  the  United  States,  etc.  8°,  pp.  48.  Richmond,  Va., 
1871. 

—  Original  Acrostics  on  some  of  the  Southern  States,  etc.     12°,  pp.  169, 

Baltimore,  1873. 
Bladensburg  Races,  The.     Reprinted.     4°,  pp.  16.      (75  copies.     No. 
73.)       Written    shortly    after    the    capture    of  Wasliington    City, 
August  24,  1814.     No  place,  1816. 


30  IIAKRIS    COLLECTION. 

Bladkxsuurg  Races,  The.  —  Continued. 
—  Same.     32°,  pp.  12.     No  place,  1816. 

"  Tlie  whole  production,"  says  Horatio  King,  "  reveals  an  undercurrent  of  disrespect 
and  bitterness,  especially  towards  Madison,  whicli  leads  us  to  the  supposition  that  the 
verses  were  written  soon  after  the  battle.  They  were  printed  in  1810,  but  the  author  of 
them,  so  far  as  I  am  aware,  is  unknown."  (For  an  interesting  article  on  "  The  Battle  of 
Bladensburg,"  see  Magazine  of  American  History,  Vol.  xiv,  pp.  4:58-457.) 

Blair.    (F.  O.)      Poem   delivered  at  Wilbraham,  Ma.ss.,  1844.     12°,  pp. 

13.     Boston,  1844. 
Blake,   (Emma    M.)       Reliqua^      Privately  printed    for    Daniel    Blake. 

Sq.  16°,  pp.  viii,  140.     Charleston,  1854. 

Blake,  (Miss  Louisa.)     Poems.     12°,  pp.  138.     Boston,  1832. 

Blake,  Nancy,  {pseud.?)  Letters  to  a  Western  Cousin.  8°,  pp.  36. 
New  York,  1864. 

Blake,  Sarah  ;  or,  The  Little  Waitress.  (Anon.)  18°,  pp.  8.  No 
place,  no  date. 

Blakely,  (A.)  The  Sabbath.  A  Sermon  in  Poetry.  12°,  pp.  24. 
Rochester,  1859. 

Blauvelt,  ( — .)  Fashion's  Analysis  ;  or,  The  Winter  in  Town.  A 
Satirical  Poem.  By  Sir  Anthony  Avalanche.  With  Notes,  Illus- 
trations, etc.  By  Gregory  Glacier,  Gent.  Part  I.  16°,  pp.  84. 
New  York,  1807. 

Bleecker,  (Ann  Eliza,)  and  Faugerres,  (Margaretta  V.) 

Mrs.  Bleecker.was  the  daugliter  of  Brandt  Schyler,  of  New  Y'ork,  born  in  1752,  married 
in  1709  John  J.  Bleecker,  of  New  Kochelle,  N.  Y.,  and  died  in  1783.  This  volume  is  rare. 
W.  L.  Stone  sought  in  vain  to  find  it. 

—  Works.     Prose  and  Poetry.      16°,  pp.  375.     Ncav  York,  1793. 

Bliss,  (H.)     The  Genius  of  Federalism.     12°,  pp.  24.     Pittsfield,  1813. 

Blockheads,  The  ;  or.  The  Affrighted  Officers.  A  Farce. 
(Anon.)      12°,  pp.  19.     Boston,  1776. 

—  16°,  pp.  V,  43.     New  York.     1782. 

Blood,  (B.)  The  Colonnades.  Lg.  8°,  pp.  113.  Author's  Private  Edi- 
tion.    Amsterdam,  N.  Y.,  1868. 

Blount,   (Annie  R.)     Poems.     12°,  pp.  vi,  276,     Augusta,  Ga.,  1860. 

Bll-nt,  (Mrs.  Ellen  K.)  Bread  to  My  Children.  12°,  pp.  124.  Phil- 
adelphia, 1856. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  31 

BOGART,    (E.) 

Elizabeth  Bogart,  daugliter  of  Rev.  David  S.  Bogart,  was  born  in  the  city  of  New 
York.  Under  the  instructions  of  her  father  she  became  an  Kceomplished  scholar.  At  an 
early  age  she  began  to  write  for  the  periodicals  of  the  day,  chiefly  for  the  Xew  York  ^fir• 
rot;  under  the  signature  of  "  Estelle."  One  of  her  short  pieces  of  four  stanzas,  "  He  Came 
Too  Late,"  has  been  especially  admired. 

—  Driftings  from  the  Stream  of  Life.     A  Collection  of  Fugitive  Pieces. 

12°,  pp.  309.     New  York,  18G6. 

Boies,  (Laura  Ann.)     Rural   Rhyme.?.     8°,  pp.  189.     Saratoga,  1860. 

BoKER,  (G.  H.) 

George  H.  Boker  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  October  6,  1823,  graduated  at  Princeton  in 
1842,  studied  law,  but  did  not  practice,  his  tastes  inclining  him  to  literary  pursuits.  In 
1871  he  was  appointed  minister  to  Constantinople,  and  in  ls74  to  .St.  Petersburg.  At  the 
end  of  five  years  he  returned  to  his  native  city. 

—  Anne  Boleyn.     A  Tragedy.      12°,  pp.  viii,  225.     Philadelphia,  1850. 

—  Calaynos.     A  Tragedy.      18°,  pp.  64.     London,  no  date.  [1849] 

—  Hymn  for  the  87th  Anniver.sary  of  American  Independence.     8°.  pp. 

2.     No  place,  no  date. 

—  Plays  and  Poems.      2  vols.,  16°.    pp.  424,  450.     Bo.ston,  1856. 

—  Poems  of  the  AYar.      12°,  jjp.  vi,  201.     Boston,  1864. 

—  The  Podesta's  Daughter,  etc.      16°,  pp.  vi,  156.     Philadelphia,  1852. 

The  same  in  manuscript  presented  by  the  author  for  the  benefit  of  the  "  Central  Sani- 
tary Fair."    4°,  pp.  28.    Philadelphia,  5Iay  4,  1804. 

BOKUM,  (H.)      Translations    in    Poetry  and  Prose,  from  German.      16°, 
pp.  v,  146.     Boston,  1836. 

BoLLES,  (J.  R.)     Solitude  and  Society,  with  other  Poems.     2d  Edition. 
12°,  pp.  118.     New  London,  1847. 

Bonaparte:  with  the  Storm  at  Sea,  etc.     (Anon.)     8°,  pp.  iv,  92. 
New  Y^ork,  1820. 

Book  of  Sonnet.s,  A.     By  a  Virginian.      (Anon.)      16°,  pp.  31.     Lynch- 
burg, Va.,  1867. 

Book,  The    First  of.     American    Chronicles  of  the    Times.      12°,  not 
paged.     Boston,  1775. 

Booth,  (J.  B.) 

Junius  iJrutus  Booth  was  born  in  London  in  l~'.tO,  and  was  a  popular  tragedian.  In 
1821  he  visited  tlic  United  States,  where  he  performed  with  great  ai)plausc,  being  especially 
successful  in  the  character  of  Ricliard  III.  He  died  on  his  return  to  the  east  from  Cali- 
fornia in  1852. 


32  IIAKKIS    COLLECTION. 

Booth,  (J.  B.)  —  Continued. 

—  Ugolino.      18°,  pp.  36.     Philadelphia,  no  date. 

—  Same.     12°,  pp.  27.     Boston,  no  date. 

Booth,    (Mrs.   M.   H.   C.)       Wayside    Blossoms.      18°,   pp.    106,    vii. 
Philadelphia,  1865. 

BoKTHWiCK,  (J.  W.)     The    Harp  of  Canaan.     8°,  pp.  269.     Montreal, 
1866. 

Boston  City:  Measured  by  the  Author  of  the  "Phillipiad."     8°, 
pp.  60.     Boston,  1849. 

Bosworth,  (B.)     Signs  of  Apostacy.     18°,  pp.  4.     No  title-page. 

BoTSFORD,  (E.)      Sambo  and  Toney.      16°,  pp.  46.     Georgetown,  S.  C, 
1808. 

BoTSFORD,    (Mrs.)      Viola  ;  or.  The  Heiress  of  St.  Valverde.      18°,  pp. 
96.     Louisville,  Ky.,  1820. 

BOTTA,    (V.) 

Vincenzo  Botta  was  born  at  Cavalier  Maggiore,  in  Piedmont,  Italy,  November  11, 1818. 
For  several  years  he  was  a  professor  in  the  royal  and  national  colleges  in  Turin,  and  in 
1849  became  a  member  of  the  Sardinian  Parliament.  Subsequently  he  came  to  the  United 
States,  and  for  several  years  has  been  professor  of  Italian  in  the  University  of  New  Y'ork. 

—  Dante  as  Philosopher,  Patriot  and  Poet,  etc.     8°,  pp.  x,  413.     New 

York,  1865. 

BouciCAULT,  (D.)  AND  Seymour,  (C.)     Wanted  —  A  Widow.     A  Farce. 
12°,  pp.  16.     New  York,  no  date. 

BouLTON,  (T.)      The  Voyage.      12°,  pp.  vi,  54.     Boston,  1773. 

Bourne,    (W.   O.)      Poems  of   Hope    and    Action.      8°,  pp.  \iii,    143. 
New  York,  1850. 

—  The  Republic.     School  Edition.      12°,  pp.  8.     New  York,  1861. 

This  poem  was  suggested  by  reading  a  line  in  the  London  Times,  "  The  great  republic 
is  no  more." 

Bowen,  (H.  W.)     Verses.      12°,  pp.  128.     Boston,  1884. 

Bower  of  Spring,  The,  etc.     (Anon.)     16°,  pp.  x,  107.     Philadelphia, 
1817. 

Bowles,  (W.  L.)     The  Missionary.      18°,  pp.  144.     Philadelphia,  1815. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  33 

Boyd,  (W.)  Woman.  A  Poem  delivered  at  a  Public  Exhibition,  Har- 
vard, April  19,  1796.     12°,  pp.  15.     Boston,  1796. 

BoYESEX,  (H.  H.)  Idyls  of  Norway,  etc.  Sq.  16°,  pp.  vii,  185.  New 
York,  1882. 

Boyle,  (Esmeralda.)  Tliistle-Down.  12°,  pp.  viii,  159.  Philadel- 
phia, 1871. 

Brackenridge,  (H.  H.) 

Hugh  Henry  Brackenridge  was  born  in  Scotland  in  1748,  graduated  at  Princeton  im, 
studied  law  and  settled  at  Pittsburg,  Pa.,  about  1782,  and  in  179'Ji  was  appointed  Judge  of 
the  Supreme  Court  of  the  Stale.    He  died  in  1810. 

—  Battle  of  Bmiker  Hill.     A  Dramatic  Piece  of  Five  Acts,  in  Heroic 

Measure.      12°,  pp.  49.       Philadelphia,  1776. 

Bound  in  red  morocco,  and  a  perfect  copy. 

—  Gazette  Publications.      12°,  pp.  348.     Carlisle,  1806. 
Brackett,  (E.  E.) 

Edwin  E.  Brackett  was  born  in  Vassalborough,  Me.,  October  1,  1819.  He  is  an  artist 
by  profession,  and  has  obtained  a  wide  reputation  by  his  portrait-busts. 

—  Twilight  Hours  ;  or.  Leisure  Moments  of  an  Artist.     16°,  pp.  iv,  95  . 

Boston,   1845. 

Brackett,  (J.  "\V.)  The  Ghost  of  Law;  or,  Anarchy  and  Despotism. 
Dartmouth  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  August  23,  1803.  Sq.  12°,  pp.  24. 
Hanover,  1803. 

Bradbury,  (W.  B.)  Oriola.  Hymn  and  Tune  Book,  30th  Edition,  ob. 
24°,  pp.  272.     Cincinnati,  etc.,  1862. 

Bradford,  (J.  8.)     Autumn   Winds,    etc.      12°,  pp.   115.     New  York, 

1809. 
Bradley,  (W.  H.) 

William  H.  Bradley  was  a  native  of  Rhode  Island.  He  received  from  Brown  Univer- 
sity  in  1824  the  degree  of  M.  D.    He  died  in  182.0. 

—  Giuseppino.     18°,  pp.  68.     Philadelphia,  1822. 
Bradstreet,  (Mrs.  Anne.) 

Anne,  daughter  of  Gov.  Thomas  Dudley,  was  born  in  Northampton,  England,  in  1612, 
and  at  the  early  age  of  sixteen  —  1828  —  married  Simon  Bradstreet.  Soon  after  marriage 
she  left  her  home,  with  her  husband,  in  company  with  certain  wealthy  Puritans,  among 
whom  were  Gov.  Winthrop,  Sir  Uicliard  Saltonstall,  her  fatlier,  Thomas  Dudley,  and  Wil- 
liam Codington,  reaching  New  England  June  22,  1630.    That  year  her  husband  was  chosen 


34  IIARIUS    COLLECTION. 

Bradstkeet,  (Mks.  Anne.)  —  Conthmed. 

"  Assistant,"  and  was  annually  re-chosen  for  forty-eight  years.  Upon  the  overthrow  of 
the  infamous  Andros,  he  was  elected  Governor  of  the  "  Bay  State,"  having  reached  the 
great  age  of  ninety  years.  After  several  removals,  the  Bnidstrcets,  in  1644,  settled  near 
Audover,  Mass.,  on  what  is  still  known  as  tlic  Bradstreet  farm,  where  they  resided  during 
the  twenty-six  remaining  years  of  the  life  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  she  dying  in  1072, 
at  the  age  of  sixty.  "  The  most  of  lier  poems,"  says  Professor  Tyler,  "  were  produced 
between  10;50  and  1042,  that  is,  before  she  was  thirty  years  old;  and  during  these  years 
she  had  neither  leisure,  nor  elegant  surroundings,  nor  freedom  from  anxious  thoughts, 
nor  even  abounding  health.  Somehow,  during  her  busy  life-time,  she  contrived  to  put 
upon  record  compositions  numerous  enougli  to  1111  a  royal  octavo  volume  of  four  hundred 
pages, —  compositions  which  entice  and  reward  our  reading  of  them  two  hundred  years 
after  she  lived."    (See  Tyler's  Hist,  of  Anier.  Lit.,  vol.  I,  pp.  277-292.) 

—  The  Tenth  Muse  Lately  Sprung  up  in  America  ;  or,  Severall  Poems 

compiled  with  great  variety  of  Wit  and  Learning,  full  of  delight, 
Wherein  especially  is  contained  a  compleat  discourse  and  descrip- 
tion of  The  Four  Elements,  Constitutions,  Ages  of  Man,  Seasons  of 
the  Year.  Together  with  an  Exact  Epitomie  of  the  Four  Monar- 
chies, viz.  :  The  Assyrian,  Persian,  Grecian,  Roman.  Also  a 
Dialogue  between  Old  England  and  New,  concerning  the  late 
troubles.  With  divers  other  pleasant  and  serious  Poems.  By  a 
GentlcAvoman  in  those  parts.  Printed  at  London  for  Stephen 
Bowtell,  at  the  signe  of  the  Book  in  Popes  Head  Alley,  1650. 

This  London  Edition,  10°,  pp.  207,  1650,  is  believed  to  have  been  the  First  Edition  of 
Mrs.  Bradstreet's  Poems.  Griswold,  and  Allibone  in  the  earlier  editions  of  his  "  Dictionary 
of  Authors,"  speak  of  an  edition  published  in  1040,  of  which  the  London  Edition  was  a 
reprint,  but  we  find  no  proof  that  such  an  edition  was  published.  Allibone  has  corrected 
the  error  in  the  later  editions  of  his  Dictionary.  The  copy  in  the  Harris  Collection  is  in 
perfect  order  and  elegantly  bound.    It  cost  $125. 

—  Same.     2d  Edition.     Boston,  1678. 

—  Same.     3d  Edition.     Boston,  1758. 

—  Same.     Edited  by  J.  H.   Ellis  (entered  by  A.   E.  Cutter).     4°,  pp. 

Lxxvi,  434.     Charlestown,   1867, 

No.  70  of  an  edition  of  two  hundred  and  fifty. 

Brain ARD,  (J.  G.  C.) 

John  G.  C.  Brainard  was  born  at  New  London,  Conn.,  October  21, 1796,  graduated  at 
Yale  College  in  1815,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1819,  in  1822  became  editor  of  the  Connec- 
ticut Mirror,  and  continued  in  this  position  till  1827.  He  died  of  consumption  September 
26,  1828. 

—  Occasional  Pieces  of  Poetry.     12°,  pp.  111.     New  York,  1825. 

—  Poems,  Avith  a  Memoir.     16°,  pp.  Ixiv,  191.     Hartford,  1842. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  35 

Branagan,  (T.) 

Tliomas  Branagan  %vas  born  In  Dublin,  Ireland,  December  28,  1774.  He  exhibited  a 
roving  disposition  from  his  early  youth,  and  became  a  sailor.  After  visiting  many  for- 
eign ports,  he  settled  for  a  time  on  an  estate  in  Antigua,  W.  I.,  where  he  became  an  over- 
seer on  two  or  three  plantations  in  succession,  remaining  upwards  of  two  years,  and  being 
occupied  in  various  ways  for  two  more  years.  The  condition  of  the  slaves  awakened  his 
sympathy,  and  led  him  to  decide  that  he  would  never  again  become  an  overseer  on  a  West 
India  plantation.  At  the  ago  of  not  far  from  thirty  he  came  to  the  United  States.  He 
warmly  espoused  the  anti-slavery  cause,  and  with  pen  and  voice  did  everything  in  his  power 
to  overthrow  the  system. 

—  Avenia ;  or,   A    Tragical    Poem    on    the   Oppression  of  the  Human 

Species  and  Infringement  on  the  Rights  of  Man.  In  six  books. 
With  Notes,  Explanatory  and  Miscellaneous.  Written  in  Imita- 
tion of  Homer's  Iliad.      12°,  pp.  358.     Philadelphia,  1805. 

The  design  of  this  poem  is  to  depict  the  horrors  of  the  slave  trade  and  of  the  system 
of  domestic  slavery.  This  volume  has  been  put  into  elegant  binding,  witli  gilt-edged 
leaves,  thoroughly  cleaned,  and  its  title-page  made  perfect,  a  piece  torn  from  the  bottom 
having  been  replaced. 

—  The  Excellency  of  the    Female   Character,  etc.      1G°,  pp.  xii,  308. 

New  York,  1807. 

—  The  Excellency  of  Virtue,  etc.      1G%  pp.  iv,  228.     Philadelphia,  1808. 

—  The  Penitential  Tyrant ;  or,  Slave-Trader    Reformed  :    A    Pathetic 

Poem,  in  Four  Cantos.  Second  Edition,  enlarged.  18°,  pp.  vii, 
290.     New  York,  1807. 

Branch,  (W.,  Jr.)      Life.     A  Poem  in  Three  Books.      12°,  pp.  xii,  218. 
Richmond,  1819. 

Brannan,  (W.  p.) 

William  Penn  Brannan  was  born  at  Cincinnati,  March  22,  1825,  and  spent  his  youth  on 
his  father's  farm.  He  became  a  successful  portrait  and  landscape  painter,  and  was  also  a 
poetical  contributor  to  several  leading  literary  journals.  His  humorous  i?ketches  in  prose 
were  very  widely  circulated  through  the  newspapers.  For  some  time  he  practiced  his  art 
in  Chicago.    He  died  in  1805.  ' 

—  Vagaries  of  Vandyke   Brown.     An  Autobiography  in  Verse.      16°, 

pp.  230.     Cincinnati,  1865. 

Brashears,  (N.)      Poems    on    Miscellaneous   Subjects.       12°,   pp.    112. 
Washington,  1826. 

—  Same.     2d  Edition.     1830. 

—  The  Satirist,  etc.      12°,  pp.  59.     Washington,  1832. 

Breck,  (C.)     The  Fox  Chase.    A  Comedy.   18°,  pp.  64.    New  York.  1808. 

—  The  Trust.     A  Comedy.     18°,  pp.  82.     New  York,  1808. 


36  ilARlJly    COLLECTION. 

Breck,  (J.)  West  Point ;  oi-,  A  Tale  of  Treason.  An  Historical 
Drama.     1G°,  pp.  21.     Baltimore,  1840. 

Breckenbridge,  (J.)  The  Crusades,  etc.  8°,  pp.  327.  Kingston, 
184G. 

Brewer,  (W.  A.)  Kecreations  of  a  Merchant;  or,  The  Christian 
Sketch  Book.     lG°,pp.  vii,  192.     Boston,  1836. 

Brewerton,  (G.  D.)  Ida  Lewis,  the  Heroine  of  Lime  Rock.  16°,  pp. 
66.     Newport,  R.  I.,  1869. 

Brewster,  (L.  D.)  Poem  before  the  Senior  Class,  Yale  College,  June 
13,  1855.     8°,  pp.  16.     New  Haven,  1855. 

Brewster,  (Martha.)  Poems  on  Divers  Subjects.  16°,  pp.  35.  New 
London  and  Boston,  1757. 

Bride,  The,  of  Fort  Edward.  Founded  on  an  Incident  of  the  Revo- 
lution.     16°,  pp.  viii,  194.      New  York,  1839. 

The  author  is  supposed  to  have  been  Miss  Delia  Bacon. 

Bride,  The,  of  the  Iconoclast.  A  Poem.  Suggestions  toward  the 
Mechanical  Art  of  Verse.  (Anon.)  12°,  pp.  131.  Boston, 
1854. 

Bridges,  (Sallie.)  Marble  Isle,  Legends  of  the  Round  Table,  etc. 
16°,  pp.  272.     Philadelphia,  1864. 

Briggs,  (Caroline  A.)  Utterance;  or,  Private  Voices  to  the  Public 
Heart.     A  Collection  of  Home  Poems.      12°,  pp.  255.     Boston, 

1852. 

Bright,  (M.  H.)  Dies  Iras.  8°,  pp.  9.  New  York,  privately  printed. 
25  copies.     1866. 

"  Mr.  M.  H.  Bright  sends  us  a  new  version  of  tlie  fomous  old  monkish  song,  the  '  Dies 
IrjE,'  his  aim  being,  he  says,  to  render  it  literally,  while  he  conforms  at  the  same  time  to 
the  trochaic  measure  of  the  original  Latin." — From  the  Bound  Tahle,  Oct.  2",  1866. 

Brine,  (Mary  D.)  Madge,  the  Violet  Girl,  etc.  4°,  pp.  114.  New 
York,  1881. 

Britain,  (N.)  and  Sherwood,  (L.  H.)  The  School  Song  and  Hymn 
Book.      16°,  pp.  386.     New  York,  1855. 

Brittan,  (T.  S.)     Scripture  Patriots.     18°,  pp.  131.     New  York,  1834. 


AMEEICAX    POETRY.  37 

Broad  Hint,  A.      (Anon.)     8°.      No  place.     Date  in  pencil,  1829. 

Not  published.  The  whole  title  is  "  A  Broad  Hint  to  No  Body ;  if  it  suits  Any  Body, 
it  will  not  disappoint  Every  Body."  The  following  is  written  in  pencil  on  the  title  page  : 
"  Refers  to  Rev. Parkinson's  crim.  con.  case." 

Broadcloth.   (Doctor.)     The  United   States   Political  Looking  Glass, 
Hydrometer  and  Thermometer.     12°,  pp.  48.     Albany,  1824. 

Broadside  for  the  Times.     (Anon.)     12°,  pp.  24.     New  York,  1861. 

Brooke,  (H.)     Gustavus  Vasa,  etc.     16°,  pp.  83.     Philadelphia,  1778. 

Brooke,  (W.)     Julia.     12°,  pp.  100.     Boston,  1855. 

Brooks,  (C.  T.) 

Charles  T.  Brooks  was  born  in  Salem,  Mass.,  in  1813,  and  graduated  at  Harvard  Col- 
lege in  1832.  His  acquaintance  with  Dr.  FoUen  led  to  his  introduction  to  the  writings  of 
the  most  eminent  German  autliors,  and  lie  distinguished  himself  as  a  translator  of  their 
works.  Having  studied  theology  at  the  Divinity  School  at  Cambridge,  he  was  settled  as  a 
Unitarian  minister  in  Newport,  R.  I.,  where  he  commenced  his  labors  in  January,  1837,  his 
ordination  taking  place  the  following  June,  at  which  time  Dr.  W.  E.  Channing  preached 
the  sermon.    His  only  pastorate  was  at  Newport,  where  he  died  June  14,  1SS3. 

—  Aquidneck  :    A  Poem  pronounced  on  the  Hundredth  Anniversary  of 

the  Incorporation  of  the  Redwood  Library,  Newport,  R.  I.,  August 
xxiv,  MDCCCXLVii.  "With  other  Commemorative  Pieces.  12°, 
pp.  iv,  69.     Providence,  1848. 

—  Faust.     Translated  with  Notes.      16°,  pp.  234.     Boston,  1856, 

—  Same.     2d  Edition.     Boston,  1857. 

—  German  Lyrics.      12°,  pp.  viii,  237.     Boston,  1853. 

—  Master  Pigmy  and  the  Spark  that  went  a  Sparking.     From  the  Ger- 

man of  H.  Hoffman.  Illustrated.  8°,  pp.  16.  Philadelphia,  no 
date. 

—  Roman  Rhymes.     12°,  pp.  46.     Cambridge,  1869. 

—  Schiller's   Homage  of  the  Arts.     16°,  pp.  viii,  151.     Boston,  1847. 

—  The  Jobsiad.     A   Grotesco-Comico-Heroic  Poem,  from  the  German 

of  Dr;  Carl  Arnold  Kortiim.  16°,  pp.  xviii,  181.  Philadelphia, 
1863. 

—  The  Layman's  Breviary  ;  or.  Meditations  for  Every  Day  in  the  Year. 

From  the  German  of  Leopold  Schefer.  Sq.  16°,  pp.  iv,  452. 
Boston,  1867. 

—  The  World-Priest.     Translated  from  the  German  of  Leopold  Schefer. 

Sq.  16°,  pp.  XV,  393.     Boston,  1873. 


38  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

Brooks,  (C.  T.)  —  Continued. 

—  Tlie  AYisdom  of  tlae  Brahmin.     A  Didactic  Poem.     Translated  from 

tlic  German  of  F.  Biichert.     Books  I — VI.     8q.  1S°,  pp.  ix,  252. 
Boston,  1882. 

—  William  Tell.     A  Drama.     From  Schiller.      12°,  pp.  120.     Provi- 

dence, 1838.  « 

Brooks,  (Constantixa  E.)     Ballads  and  Translations.     12°,  jop.  144. 

New  York,  1866. 

Brooks,  (J.  G.) 

James  Gordon  Brooks  was  born  at  Claverack,  X.  Y.,  in  1801,  and  graduated  at  Union 
College  in  1819.  In  1828  he  married  Miss  Mary  E.  Aiken.  In  connection  with  Mrs.  Brooks, 
he  published  in  1829  a  volume  entitled  "  The  Rivals  of  Este."    He  died  in  1811. 

—  Phi  Beta  Kappa.     Yale,   September   12,  1826.     8°,  pp.   28.     New 

York,  1826. 

Brooks,  (Mrs.  M.) 

Maria  Gowan,  called  by  Southey  "  Maria  del  Occidente,"  was  born  at  Medford,  Mass., 
about  the  year  1795,  and  at  an  early  age  married  Mr.  Brooks,  a  merchant  of  Boston,  who 
died  a  few  years  after  their  marriage.  Southey  speaks  of  Mrs.  B.  as  "  the  most  impas- 
sioned and  magnetic  of  all  poetesses."    She  died  at  Matanzas  in  1845. 

—  Judith,  Esther,  and  other  Poems.     24°,  pp.  112.     Boston,  1820. 

—  Zophiel ;  or,  The  Bride  of  Seven.     2d  American,  from  the  1st  Lon- 

don Edition.     18°,  pp.  255.     Boston,  1834. 

Brooks,  (N.  C.) 

Nathan  Covington  Brooks  was  born  in  Cecil  county,  Md.,  in  1809.  He  became  Presi- 
dent of  the  Baltimore  Female  College  in  1848.  His  series  of  Greek  and  Latin  classes  has 
enjoyed  a  well-deserved  reputation,  as  has  also  his  "  History  of  the  Mexican  War." 

—  Scriptural  Anthology.      18°,  pp.  180.     Philadelphia,  1837. 

—  The  History  of  the  Church.     Read  before  the  Diagnothian  Society  of 

Marshall  College,  July  5,  1841.      12°,  pp.  60.     Baltimore,   1841. 

—  The   Literary  Amaranth  ;    or.   Prose    and    Poetry.       12°,   pp.  264. 

Philadelphia  and  Baltimore,  1840. 

Brooks,   (Sarah  W.)     Blanche;  or.  The   Legend  of  the  Angel  Tower. 
12°,  pp.  43.     New  York,  1861. 

—  The  Legend  of  St.  Christopher,  etc.      12°,  pp.  v,  172.     Providence, 

1859. 

—  Even-Songs,  etc.     Sq.  16°,  pp.  103.     Boston,  1868. 


AMERICAN    POETKY.  39 

Brother  Jonathan's  Epistle  to  his  Relatives.     12°,  "pp.  25.     Bos- 
ton, 18.52. 

Brougham,  (J.) 

John  Brougham  was  born  in  Dublin,  May  9,  18H,  and  came  to  tlie  United  States  not 
far  from  the  year  1842.  He  was  tlie  autlior  of  more  than  one  hundred  dramatic  pieces. 
A  full  sketch  of  his  life  may  be  found  in  Volume  I.  of  his  plays,  published  in  New  York, 
1856.    He  died  June  7,  1880. 

—  Columbus  et  Filibustero  !  !     A  Comedy.     12°,  pp.  24.     New  York, 

no  date. 

—  Dred.      12°,  pp.  4.3.     New  Y^'ork,  no  date. 

—  Franklin.     An    Historical   Drama.      12°,   pp.    27.     New  York,  no 

date. 

—  Life  in  New  York.     A  Comic  Drama.      12°,  pp.26.     NewY''ork,  no 

date. 

—  Metamora ;    or,  The  Last  of  the  Pollywogs.     A   Burlesque.      12°, 

pp.  18.     Boston,  no  date. 

—  Neptune's  Defeat;  or.  The  Seizure  of  the  Lear.      12°,  pp.  24.     New 

York,  no  date. 

—  Po-ca-hon-tas  ;  or,   The    Gentile  Slave.      12°,   pp.  32.     New  York, 

no  date. 

—  Take  Care  of  Little  Children.     A  Farce.      12°,  pp.  14.     New  York, 

no  date. 

—  Temptation;  or.  The  L'ish  Emigrant.     A  Comic  Drama.      12°,  pp. 

22.     New  Y'ork,  no  date. 

—  The  Great  Tragic  Revival.      12°,  pp.  10.     New  York,  no  date. 

—  The  Irish  Y'ankee ;  or.   The    Birthday  of  Freedom.      12°,   pp.    28. 

New  Y'ork,  no  date. 

—  The  Miller  of  New  Jersey;  or.   The    Prison  Walk.     12°,   pp.    28. 

New  Y'ork,  no  date. 

—  The  Musard   Ball;  or,  Love   at  the  Academy.      12°,  pp.  12.      New 

York,  no  date. 

—  The  Red  Mask  ;  or,  The  AVolf  of  Bohemia.     A  Melo-Drama.      12°, 

pp.  20.      New  York,  no  date. 

—  AND  Goodrich,  (F.  B.)     The  Dark   Hour  Before  Dawn.     A  Play. 

12°,  pp.  44.      New  York,  no  date. 

Brown,  (D.  P.) 

David  Paul  Hrown  was  born  in  Philadelphia  in  17U5,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  at  the 
age  of  21,  began  in  early  life  to  contribute  to  periodical  literature,  and  reached   great  dis- 


40  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

Bkown,  (D.  p.)  —  Continued. 

tinction  as  a  lawyer.    "  The  Forum,  or  Forty  Years'  Full  Practice  at  the  Philadelphia  Bar," 
2  volumes,  S'^,  is  pronounced  by  AUibone  "  excellent."    Mr.  Brown  died  July  11,  1872. 

—  Sertorius   and  Prophet  of  St.  Paul.     8°,  pp.  87,  pp.  50.     Philadel- 

phia, 1830. 

Brom'X,  (E.)  The  Trial  of  Cain,  the  first  Murderer,  in  Poetry.  By- 
rule  of  Court ;  In  which  a  Predestinarian,  a  Universalian,  and  an 
Armenian  argue  as  Attornies  at  the  Bar ;  the  two  former  as  the 
Prisoner's  Counsel,  the  latter  as  Attorney  General.  "  Prove  all 
things,  hold  ftist  that  which  is  good." — Paid.  18°,, pp.  32.  Bos- 
ton, 1827. 

—  Same.     24°,  pp.  62.     New  York,  1834. 

Brown,  (J.  N.) 

John  Newton  Brown,  D.  D.,  a  distinguished  minister  of  the  Baptist  denomination,  was 
born  at  New  London  in  June,  1803,  graduated  from  Hamilton,  now  Madison,  University, 
in  1823,  was  ordained  in  Butfalo  in  1825,  and  through  life  was  engaged  in  ministerial  and 
literary  work.  He  compiled  "  Encyclopedia  of  Religious  Knowledge,"  in  its  day  a  val- 
uable work.    He  died  in  Germautown,  Pa.,  May  14,  1868. 

—  Emily,  etc.     16°,  pp.  viii,  276.     Concord,  N.  H.,  1840. 

—  The  Apocalypse.     A  Poem  delivered  at  Waterville,  Me.,  August  2, 

1836.     16°,  pp.  20.     Augusta,  Me.,  1836. 

Brown,  (J.  S.)     The  Bouquet,  etc.     16°,  pp.  124.      Lancaster,  1858. 
Brown,  (J.  W.) 

John  W.  Brown  was  born  at  Schenectady  in  181i,  and  became  an  Episcopal  minister. 
He  died  in  1849. 

—  Geraldine  ;  or,  The  Guardian  Angel,  etc.     16°,  pp.  73.     New  York, 

1846. 

—  Michael  Agonistes  ;  or.  The  Contests  of  tlie  Spirits.     12°,  pp.   94. 

New  York,  1843. 

—  The    Christian    Offering  and  Churchman's  Annual.      12°,   pp.   204. 

New  York,  1839. 

—  The  Christmas  Bells.     12°,  pp.  221.     New  York,  1842. 

Brown,  (L.) 

The  author,  Leonard  Brown,  was  born  in  1838.  He  says  that  "  the  greater  part  of  his 
'  Poems  of  the  Prairies  '  were  written  before  the  war,  and  while  the  author  was  quite 
young.  A  blacksmith's  apprentice  in  his  youth,  he  had  few  advantages  of  early  instruction 
from  books." 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  41 

Brown,  L.  —  (  Continued.') 

—  Poem.     Delivered  in  Kalamazoo,  Mich.,  Jmie  21,  1854.     8°,  pp.  12. 

New  York,  1854, 

—  Poems  of  the    Prairies.      New   Edition.      16°,    pp.    x,    186.      Des 

Moines,  1868. 

Brown,  (S.) 

Solyman  Brown,  M.  D.,  was  born  at  Litchfield,  Conn.,  November  17,  1790,  graduated  at 
Yale  College  in  1814,  and  for  several  years  preached  as  a  licensed  Congregational  minister, 
and  was  also  a  teacher.  In  1812  he  removed  to  New  York  and  became  a  Swedenborgian 
preacher,  and  was,  moreover,  an  instructor  in  the  classics.  Subsequently  he  became  a 
dentist,  and  for  two  years  was  one  of  the  editors  of  "  The  American  Journal  and  Library  of 
Dental  Science." 

—  An  Essay  on  American  Poetry,  etc.      12'',   pp.    11)1.     New  Haven, 

1818. 

—  Dental  Hygeia.     A'  Poem  on   the   Health   and    Preservation  of  the 

Teeth.      12°,  pp.  54.     New  Y^ork,  1838. 

—  Dentologia.     8°,   pp.  46.     New  York,  1840. 

—  Llewellen's  Dog.      12°,  pp.  12.     New  Y^ork,  1840. 

Brown,  The  History  of.     (Anon.)     18°,  pp.  24.     Philadelphia,  1849. 
Brown  University.     Centennial  Celebration,  September  6,  1864. 

In  the  volume  are  the  Centennial  Ode  by  Right  Rev.  George  Burgess,  D.  D.,  Bishop 
of  the  Diocese  of  Maine,  and  the  Poem  of  Hon.  Charles  Thurber  at  the  dinner. 

Brown,  (W.  AY.)     Bread,  if  Y^ou  Please,  etc.     8°,  pp.  12.     Cleveland, 
no  date. 

Browne,  (Frances  E.)     Poems.     16°,  pp.  iv,  155.     Cambridge,  1846. 

—  Same.     Boston,  1848. 

Browne,  (W.  C.)     Harp,   The  Wesleyan.     3d   Edition.      18°,  pp.  213. 
Boston,  1841. 

Brownell,  (H.  H.) 

Henry  Howard  Brownell  was  born  at  East  Hartford  in  1820,  graduated  at  Trinity  Col- 
lege in  1841,  studied  law,  devoted  himself  to  literary  pursuits,  in  the  civil  war  was  ajvolun- 
teer,  and  became  the  Secretary  of  Admiral  Farragut.    He  died  in  Hartford  in  1872. 

—  Ephemeron.      12°,  pp.  viii,  58.     New  Y^ork,  1855. 

—  Lyrics  of   a  Day ;  or,   Newspaper  Poetry.     By  a  Volunteer    in  the 

United  States  Service.      12°,  pp.  160.     New  Y'ork,  1874. 

—  War-Lyrics,  etc.     12°,  pp.  243.     Boston,  1866. 


42  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

Bryan,  (D.) 

This  poetical  "  appeal  "  was  made  in  behalf  of  R.  S.  Coffin,  "  the  Boston  Bard,"  who 
was  wasting  away  with  consumption.  The  author,  Daniel  Bryan,  was  born  in  Virginia, 
and,  for  a  lime,  was  a  Senator  in  the  Legislature  of  that  .State.  Subsequently  he  was 
Postmaster  at  Georgetown,  D.  C. 

—  The  Appeal  for  Sutfering  Geniu.s.     Lg.  8°,  pp.  xiii,  80.     Washing- 

ton, 1826. 

—  The  Day  of  Gratitude.     Poems  occasioned  by  the  visit  of  La  Fayette 

to  the  United  States.     8°,  pp.  104.     Philadelpliia,  1826. 

—  The  Mountain  Muse,  comprising  Adventiu*es  of  Daniel  Boone.     16°, 

pp.  252.     Harrisonburg,  Va.,  1813. 

Biu-ANT,  (J.  D.,  M.D.)     Redemption.     A  Poem.      16°,  pp.  366.     Phil- 
adelphia, 1859. 

Bryant.  (J.  H.)  ^ 

John  Howard  Bryant,  a  brother  of  William  C,  was  born  at  Cummington,  Mass.,  July 
22,  ISOr.  In  1831  he  removed  to  Princeton,  111.,  and  has,  through  life,  devoted  himself  to 
agricultural  pursuits. 

—  Poems.      12°,  pp.  93.      1855. 
Bryant,  (W.  C.) 

AVilliam  CuUen  Bryant  was  born  at  Cummington,  Mass.,  November  .3,  1704,  and  began 
to  publish  his  poetical  productions  at  the  age  of  ten.  In  1S08,  at  the  age  of  thirteen, 
his  "  Embargo,"  a  political  satire,  was  published.  He  entered  Williams  College  in  1810, 
but  did  not  complete  the  full  course  of  study.  In  1815  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar. 
"  Thanatopsis  "  was  published  in  1816.  He  removed  to  New  York  in  1825,  and  in  1826 
became  editor  of  2Vie  Erening  Post.  This  position  he  held  through  life.  He  made  sev- 
eral trips  to  the  old  world,  and  during  his  absence  contributed  many  articles  in  the  form 
of  letters,  etc.,  to  his  paper.  His  place  for  all  coming  time  among  the  best  American 
poets  is  assured.    After  a  life  of  great  literary  activity  he  died  June  12,  1878. 

—  Poems.      12°,  pp.  viii,  240.     Boston,   1832. 

—  Same.       12°,  pp.  viii,  240.     New  York,  1832. 

—  Same.     Edited  by  Wa.shington   Irving.      12°,  pp.  xii,  235.     London, 

1832. 

—  Same.     4th  I^dition,  pp.  viii,  274.     New  York,  1836. 

—  Same.     6th  Edition,  pp.  xii,    276.        "  "      1840. 

—  Poems.      Illustrations   by  E.   Leutze,  engraved  by  American  artists. 

8°,  pp.  378.     Pliiladelphia,  1847. 

—  The  Fountain,  etc.      12°,  pp.  100.     New  York  and  London,  1842, 

—  Same.      Complete  in  one  volume.      12°,  pp.  378.     Philadelphia,  1848. 

—  Same.      1852. 

—  Same.     2  vols.      16°,  pp.  x,  296  ;   286.     New  York,  1855. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  43 

Bryant,  (W.  C.)  —  Continued. 

—  The  Fountain,  etc.      18°,  pp.  264.     New  York.  1856. 

—  Same.     Illustrated  with  71  engravings  by  the  Brothers  Dalziel.     Sm. 

4°,  pp.  344.     New  York,  1858. 

—  Same.      18°,  pp.  264.     New  Y^ork,  1864.     Blue  and  Gold  Series. 

—  Selections  from  the  American  Poets.      18°,  pp.  xii,  316.     New  Y^ork, 

1840. 

—  Same.     18°,  pp.  xvi,  256.     New  Y^ork,  1844. 

—  The  White  Footed  Deer,  etc.      16°,  pp.  24.     New  Y'ork,  1844. 

—  Fable  for  Critics.      12°,  pp.  iii,  78.     New  Y^ork,  1848. 

—  Same.     2d  Edition.      12°,  pp.  v,  80.     New  Y^ork,  1848. 

—  The  Forest  Hymn.     Illustrated.     Sm.  8°,  pp.32.     New  Y^ork,  1860. 

—  Thirty  Poems.     12°,  pp.  222.     New  Y^ork  and  London,  1864. 

—  The  Iliad  of  Homer,      loth  Edition.      12°,   2  vols.,   pp.  xviii,   332  ; 

335.     Boston,  1870. 

—  The  Odyssey  of  Homer.     9th  Edition.      12°,  2  vols.,  pp.  vi,   272; 

256.     Boston,  1871. 

—  Introduction  to  "'A  Library  of  American  Poets."     4°,  pp.  xxxi,  789. 

New  Y^ork,  1871. 

Bubbles,  Y'k  Book  of.     A  Contribution  in  Aid  of  the  New  Y^ork  Sani- 
tary Fair.     pp.  68.     New  York,  1868. 

Buck,  (J.  S.)     Milwaukee's  Early  Days.     8°,  pp.  16.     ^lilwaukee,  1874. 

Buds  and  Blossoms,  Mountain.     (Anon.)     12°,  pp.  204.    .Petersburg, 
1825. 

BuFFiNTON.  (G.  E.  C.)     A  Game  of  Chess,  etc.     Comedy.     16°,  pp.  48. 
Providence,  1875. 

BULFINCH,   (S.  G.,  D.D.) 

Stephen  Greenleaf  Bulfinch  was  born  at  Boston,  June  IS,  1809,  and  graduated  at  Co- 
lumbia College,  Washington,  D.  C,  in  1826.  His  father,  Charles  B.,  (ir(i:!-1844)  was  one 
of  the  principal  architects  of  the  Capitol  at  Washington.  Stephen  G.  studied  theology  at 
the  Cambridge  Divinity  School,  and  was  ordained  as  a  Unitarian  minister.  He  was  the 
author  of  several  volumes  of  poetry.  His  death  occurred  at  Cambriilge,  -Mass.,  October  12, 
1870. 

—  Lays  of  the  Gospel.      12°,  pp.  194.     Boston,  1845. 

—  Poems.      16°,  pp.  vi,  108.     Charleston,  1834. 

—  The  Harp  and   the  Cross.     A  Collection  of  Religious   Poetry.      12°, 

pp.  xi,  348.     Boston,  1857. 
9 


44  HARKIS    COLLECTION. 

BiLLocK,  (Cynthia.) 

Cynthia  Bullock  was  born  at  Lyons,  NVayne  county,  N.  Y.,  March  7,  18:^1.  She  was 
one  of  eighteen  blind  ehihlren  collected  in  183:5  by  Dr.  Alerby,  In  New  York,  for  the  pur- 
pose of  experimenting  on  the  capacities  of  the  blind.  By  the  death  of  her  father  her  fam. 
ily  was  lell  destitute.  She  became  a  teacher  in  the  literary  and  musical  dei)artment  of 
the  New  York  Institute  for  the  Blind. 

—  A  Bunch  of  Pausies.      12°,  pp.  x,  143.     New  York,  1852. 

—  Wasliington,  etc.      12°,  pp.  108.     New  York,  1847. 

Bulls  AND  Bears,  The;  oh,   Wall  Street   Squib,  No.   1.     1G°,  pp. 
19.     New  York,  1854. 

Bulls,  Two,  The  Story  of.      12°,  not  paged.     New  York,  1856. 

Bunce,  (O.  B.) 

Oliver  Bell  Bunce  has  written  under  the  signatures  of  B,  Bachelor  Bluff,  and  Censor. 
He  has  devoted  himself  to  journalism,  and  is  the  editor  of  "  Appleton's  Journal." 

—  Love  in  '76.     An  Incident  in   the   Revolution.      12°,  pp.  22.     New 

York,  no  date. 

Bungay,  (G.  W.)     Acrostics,  etc.     24°,  pp.  128.     New  York,  1837. 
Bunker  Hill.     A  Commemorative  Poem.     8°. 

Neither  the  name  of  the  author,  nor  the  date  of  publication,  is  given.  A  newspaper 
clipping  pasted  on  the  last  leaf  says  :  "  We  have  received  from  a  friend  a  copy  of  a  play 
published  soon  after  the  memorable  battle  of  Bunker  Hill,  and  intended  to  commemorate 
that  event.  It  was  written  by  a  Lieutenant-Colonel  in  the  Continental  army,  and  Is  dedi- 
cated to  '  Richard  Stockton,  Esquire,  member  of  the  honorable  the  Continental  Congress 
for  the  State  of  New  .lersey.'  The  dramatis  persoiue  are  the  otficers  engaged  on  both 
sides,  and  the  play,  which  is  In  blank  verse,  partakes  strongly  of  the  character  of  the  patri- 
otic poetry  of  that  day."  In  the  dedication,  the  author  says  the  poem  "  was  at  first  drawn 
up  for  an  exercise  In  oratory,  to  a  number  of  young  gentlemen  in  a  Southern  Academy, 
but  being  now  pulilished,  may  serve  the  same  purpose  In  other  American  Academies." 

Bunner,    (H.   C.)     Airs    from    Arcady  and   Elsewhere.     16°,  pp.   109. 
New  York,  1884. 

This  volume,  published  in  the  attractive  style  In  which  Charles  Scribner's  Sons  send 
out  their  productions,  is  dedicated  to  Brander  Matthews. 

Buonaparte,  Epistle  TO.      (By  a  Lady.      Anon.)      12°,  pp.  11.     Phila- 
delphia, 1814. 

Burgess,  (G.,  D.D.) 

George  Burgess  was  born  at  Providence,  R.  I.,  October  31,  1809,  graduated  at  Brown 
University  in  1826,  was  tutor  In  the  University  lS2i)-30,  studied  in  Germany,  was  Rector  of 
Christ  Church,  Hartford,  1834-47,  was  consecrated  Bishop  (Protestant  Episcopal)  of  the 
Diocese  of  Jlaine,  October  31,  1847,  and  became,  at  the  same  time,  Rector  of  Christ's 
Church,  Gardiner,  Me.  He  died  at  sea,  April  23,  1800.  For  list  of  his  published  writings, 
see  Alllbone,  p.  287. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  45 

Burgess,  (G.,  T>.B.)  — Continued. 

—  Poems.      12°,  pp.  viii,  27G.     Hartford,  1868. 

—  The  Book  of  Psalms.     Translated  into  English  Verse.      12°,  pp.  xi, 

276.     New  York,  1840. 

—  The  Martyrdoms  of  8t.    Peter  and   St.  Paul.      12°,  pp.  48.     Provi- 

dence, 1834. 

—  The  Strife  of  Brothers.     8°,  pp.  47.     New  York,  1844. 

Burgoo  Zac,  (a  pseud.)  '  The  Quiet   Romance  of  William  Whaok.     8°, 

not  paged.     Cincinnati,  1871. 
BuRGOYNE,  General,  Lamextatioxs  of.     18°.  pp.  8.     No  place,  no  date. 
BcRK,  (J.)      Bethlem  Gal)or,  Lord  of  Transylvania,  etc.     An  Historical 

Drama.      16°,  pp.  49.      Petersburg,  1807. 

—  Female  Patriotism;  or,   The    Death  of  Joan  D'Arc.       12°,  pp.  40. 

New  York,  1798. 

—  Bunker    Hill;   or.    The   Death   of  General   Warren.      16°,   pp.    39. 

Baltimore,  1808. 

—  Same.      16°,  pp.  44.     New  York,  1817. 

An  elegant  copy,  bound  in  red  morocco. 

BuRK,  (J.  D.)     The  Death  of  General  Montgomery.      12°,  pp.  68.     Nor- 
wich and  Providence,  1777. 
Burke,  (C.)     Hip  Van  Winkle.      12°,  pp.  27.     Ncav  York,  no  date. 
Burke,  (J.)      Chivalry  Slavery.      Lg.  8°,  pp.  183.      New  York,  1866. 

—  Stanzas  to  (,^ueen  Victoria,  etc.     Lg.  8°,  pp.  208.     New^  York,  1866. 

—  (Sennoia   Rubek,  pHeiid.)     The    Burden   of  the    South.      Poems  on 

Slavery.     8°,  pp.  96.     New  York,  1864. 

Bound  in  this  volume  is  U.  H.  Stoddard's  "  Abraham  Lincoln."     pp.   11.    Xew  York, 
1865. 

Burleigh,  (G.  S.) 

George  Shepard^Burleigh,  a  younger  brother  of  W.  H.  Burleigh,  was  born  at  I'lain- 
fleld.  Conn.,  March  20,  1821.  Everest  says:  "  He  very  early  developed  the  poetical  fac- 
>  ulty,  being  remarkable  when  a  mere  child  for  the  facility  with  which  he  composed  verses, 
and  for  the  euphony  that  characterized  these  juvenile  efforts."  His  present  residence 
(1886)  is  Little  Compton,  R.  I.  He  is  the  author  of  one  of  the  Odes  sung  at  the  celebra- 
tion of  the  2o0tli  anniversary  of  the  settlement  of  Providence,  R.  L,  June  23,  1886. 

—  Elegiac    Poem  on    the   Death  of   Nathaniel   Rogers.      18°,   pp.   32. 

Hartford,  1846. 

—  The  Maniac,  etc.      12°,  pp.  vi,  240.      Pliiladelphia,  1849. 

—  Signal  Fires.      12°,  pp.  viii,  162.      New  York,  1856. 


40  HA  UK  IS    COLLECTION. 

Burleigh,  (AV.  IL) 

William  Henry  Burleigh,  a  lineal  descendant  on  his  mother's  side  of  William  Brad- 
ford, so  long  the  governor  of  Plymouth  Colony,  was  born  at  Woodstock,  Conn.,  February 
2,  181'-'.  In  1837  he  removed  to  Pittsburgh,  where  he  published  the  Christian  Witness,  and 
.subsequently  the  'Temperance  Banner.  Ketnrning  e.ist  in  1843,  he  took  up  his  residence  in 
Hartford,  and  had  charge  of  the  organ  of  the  Connecticut  Anti-Slavery  Society,  then  pub- 
lished under  the  name  of  the  Christian  Freeman,  and  afterwards  of  the  Charter  Oak. 
This  position  he  occupied  for  some  six  years,  removing  to  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  in  1849,  where 
he  spent  live  years,  devoting  himself  to  the  interests  of  the  New  York  State  Temperance 
Society.  For  a  year  or  two  his  residence  was  in  Albany.  In  1855  he  was  appointed  Har- 
bor Master  of  New  York,  and  subsequently  one  of  the  Board  of  Port  Wardens,  which  office 
he  held  till  within  a  year  of  his  death.  Into  all  the  great  reforms  of  the  day  he  entered 
with  abiding  and  unflagging  interest,  promoting  these  with  voice  and  pen  up  to  the  full 
measure  of  his  ability.    He  died  at  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  March  18,  1871. 

—  Our  Country:   Its  Dangers  and  its   Destiny.      12°,  pp.  vi,  43.     Alle- 

ghany, Pa. 

—  Poems.     With    a  Sketch  of  his   Life,  by  Celia  Burleigh.     12°,  pp. 

xi,  306.     New  York,   1871. 

—  Poems.      12°,  pp.  viii,  248.     Philadelphia,  1841. 

—  The  Rum  Fiend,  etc.      12°,  pp.  44.     New  York,  1871. 

Burnet,  (J.   R.)     Tales  of  the  Deaf  and  Dumb.     With  Miscellaneous 
Poems.      1G°,  pp.  230.     Newark,  N.  J.,  1835. 

Burnett,    (J.  G.)      Blanche  of  Brandywine.     A    Play.      12°,   pp.   40. 
New  York,  [1858.] 

Burns'    Centennial    Celebration.      Songs  Written    for.     8°,   pp.    8. 
Chicago,  1859. 

Burns,  Robert.     Report  of   Centennial   Celebration,  January  25,  1859. 
Several  Original  Poems  in  the  Report.     8°,  pp.  47.     Boston,  1859. 
Burroughs,  (C,  D.D.) 

Charles  Burroughs  was  born  at  Boston,  December  27,  1787,  graduated  with  the  Latin 
Valedictory  at  Harvard  in  1806,  received  Deacon's  orders  in  the  Episcopal  Church  at  the 
hands  of  Bishop  White  at  Philadelphia,  December  10,  1809,  was  ordained  Priest  at  Ports- 
mouth by  Bishop  Griswold,  May  20,  1812,  and  became  Rector  of  St.  Paul's  Church  in  that 
place,  retaining  this  position  for  the  long  period  of  forty-tive  years,  resigning  his  office  in 
1857.  Columbia  College,  in  1833,  conferred  on  him  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity.  *He 
was  an  accomplished  scholar,  an  able,  instructive  preacher,  and  interested  in  all  affairs 
which  concerned  the  intellectual,  moral  and  religious  improvement  of  his  own  parish  and 
the  community  in  which,  for  so  many  years,  he  was  a  prominent  citizen.  He  died  March 
6, 1868.    Dr.  B.  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  General  Theological  Library  in  Boston. 

—  The  Poetry  of  Religion,  etc.      16°,  pp.  101.     Boston,  1851. 

Bl-rrowes,   (G.,  D.D.)      Octorara.     A  Poem,  and  Occasional  Pieces. 
Sq.  12°,  pp.  108.     Philadelphia,  1856. 


AMEBIC  AX    POETRY.  47 

BuKT,  (A.)     Journeyman  Weaving.      16°,  pp.  24.     New  York,  1831. 

"  The  following  verses,"  says  the  author,  "  are  founded  on  the  supposition  of  some 
attempts  having  been  made  by  the  Journeymen  Cotton  Weavers  here  to  arrest  the  further 
reduction  of  their  wages,  and  are  supposed  to  be  the  substance  of  the  several  speeches 
likely  to  be  delivered  at  the  various  meetings  held  on  the  subject." 

—  The  Coronation  ;  or,  Hypocrisy  Exposed.      Also,  Sullivan's  Island, 

witli  Notes.      12°,  pp.  xi,  77.   .  Charleston,   1822. 

—  Poems :  Chiefly  Satirical.     12°,  pp.  150.     New  York,  1833. 

BURTT,   (J.) 

The  only  information  we  can  gather  of  John  Burtt  is  that  he  was  born  in  Scotland, 
near  the  home  of  Burns,  whose  "  gifted  numbers,"  he  says,  "he  learned  at  an  early  age  to 
lisp,  and  his  young  heart  beat  responsive  to  the  hope  of  becoming,  at  some  future  period, 
a  rival  to  his  fame.  But,"  he  adds,  "  the  bitter  winter  of  adversity  destroyed  the  flatter- 
ing illusion,  and  the  discipline  of  experience  has  chastened  his  vanity,  and  convinced  him 
of  his  weakness."    When  he  came  to  America,  and  the  date  of  his  death,  we  do  not  know. 

—  Hor£e  Poeticffi  ;  or,  The  Transient  Murmurs  of  a  Solitary  Lyre.    16°, 

pp.  xi,  183.     Bridgeton,  N.  J.,  1819. 

Business  Lyrics.     By  the   best   poets,    (dead  and  alive.)     Compiled  by 
E.  J.  C.      (Anon.)      16°,  pp.  36.     Providence,  1881. 

Buster,  Phil.  E.  (pseud?)     The  AVorld's  Peace  Jubilee,  etc.       16°,  pp. 
26. 

Bustle,  The.     (Anon.)     12°,  pp.  82.     Boston,  1845. 

BuswELL,  (H.F.)     Dedication  Poem.     Memorial  Hall,  Lancaster,  Mass., 
June  17,  1868.     8°,  pp.  6.     Boston,  1868. 

Butler,  (CM.) 

An  eminent  clergyman  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  born  at  Troy,  X.  Y.,  ISIO. 

—  Themes  for  the  Poet.     8°,  pp.  23.     Hartford,  1852. 
Butler,  (Mrs.  F.  K.) 

Frances  Ann  Kemble  was  born  at  London  in  1811,  and  belonged  to  a  family  many 
members  of  which  Avere  distinguished  actors.  She  made  lier  tirst  appearance  on  the  stage 
in  the  character  of  Juliet,  October  5,  1S.>9.  While  on  a  visit  to  this  country,  in  183-1,  she 
married  Mr.  IMerce  Butler,  of  Philadelphia,  from  whom  she  was  divorced  in  1849.  She 
acquired  great  celebrity  in  England  and  America  by  her  Shakespeare  readings.  For  full 
notice  of  her  works,  see  Allibone,  pp.  1014-10. 

—  Poems.      18°,  pp.  144.     London,  1844. 

—  Same.      16°,  pp.  152.     Philadelphia,  1844. 

—  The  Star  of  Seville.      12°,  pp.  130.     New  York,  1837. 


48  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

Bltler,  (J.  II.) 

Joseph  H.  Butler  was  born  at  Bristol,  Enghiml,  in  1807,  and  camo  to  the  United  States 
in  iX-i'^,  and  took  up  his  residence  in  Troy,  N.  V.  The  Rev.  A.  Potter,  I).  D.,  who  wrote 
the  preface  to  this  volume,  says  that  Mr.  B.  was  "  a  mechanic  without  property."  At 
fourteen  he  could  not  read  a  word.  He  had,  however,  a  poetic  vein  which  in  after  years 
he  cultivated,  and  published  his  poems  under  the  following  title  : 

—  Wild  Flowers  of  Poesy.    A  Collection  of  Poems.    16°,  pp.  108.     Troy, 

N.  Y.,  1843. 
Butler,  (W.  A.) 

William  Allen  Butler  was  born  at  Albany.  N.  Y.,  in  1825,  graduated  at  the  New  York 
University,  1843,  and  settled  in  New  York  as  a  lawyer. 

—  Bai-num's  Parnassus,  etc.      16°,  pp.  52.     New  York, 1850. 

—  Nothing  to  Wear.     Illustrated  by  Hoppin.      12°,  pp.  68.     New  York, 

1857. 

—  Two  Millions.      16°,  pp.  93.     New  York,  1858. 
BuTTERWORTH,  (H.)     An  Histoi'ical  Address  and  Poem  delivered  at  the 

Centennial  Celebration  of  the  incoi'poration  of  the  town  of  Bai'ring- 
ton,  R.  I.,  June  17,  1870,  w^ith  an  Historical  Appendix.  The 
address  was  by  T.  W.  Bicknell,  and  the  poem  by  Hezekiah  Butter- 
worth.     8°,  pp.  192.     Providence,  1870. 

Button,  (Susan  S.)     Poems.     12°,  pp.  xii,  336.    Litchtield,  Ohio,  1858. 

Byer,  (M.)  Selling  Out  Ye  Pope.  A  Satire.  12°,  pp.  64.  New  York. 
1873. 

Byles,  (M.) 

Mather  Byles,  a  descendant,  on  his  motlier's  side,  from  Jolin  Cotton  and  Richard 
Mather,  was  born  at  Boston,  March  26,  1706;  graduated  at  Harvard  in  1725,  was  ordained 
as  pastor  of  the  Hollis  Street  Church,  Boston,  December  20,  1733,  his  relation  with  his 
parish  being  pleasant  until  the  Revolutionary  war,  when  he  became  obnoxious  on  account 
of  his  outspoken  Tory  sentiments.  His  connection  with  the  church  was  dissolved  in 
1776.  His  death  occurred  July  5,  1788.  Dr.  Byles  was  distinguished  for  his  wit,  some 
specimens  of  which  may  be  found  in  Sprague's  "Annals  of  the  Am.  Pulpit,"  vol.  i,  pp. 
377-82.  (For  a  discriminating  critique  on  Dr.  Byles,  see  Prof.  Tyler's  Hist.  Am.  Lit. 
voL  i,  pp.  192-98.) 

Poem  on  the  Death  of  George  I.  and  Accession  of  George  II.  16°,  pp.  5. 
No  place,  no  date. 

Poem  presented  to  His  Excellency  William  Burnet,  Esq.,  on  his  arrival 
at  Boston,  July  19,  1728.      12°,  p.  6.     No  place,  no  date, 

Byllesbv,  (L.)  Patent  Right  Oppression  Exposed;  or.  Knavery  De- 
tected, etc.  By  Patrick  N.  I.  Elisha,  Esq.,  Poet  Laureate, 
(pseud.)      12°,  pp.  xi,  189.     Philadelphia,  1814. 

On  tly-Ieaf  in  pencil:  "Koran  account  of  the  poem,  see  MSS.  in  copy  in  '  List  of 
Historical  Society,  Penn.' " 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  49 

Cady,    (CM.)     Libretto  of  Spring  Holiday.     8°,  pp.  15.     New  York, 
1856. 

Calamity  at  Lawrence,  Mass..  .January  10,  1860.  By  an  Eye-witness. 
12%  pp.  20.      Boston,  1860. 

Descriptive  of  tlie  friglitful  disaster  connected  with  the  fall  of  the  "  Pemberton  Mills," 
when,  under  circumstances  of  aggravated  horror,  many  lives  were  lost. 

Caldcleaugh,  (W.  G.)  Branch,  The,  etc.  12%  pp.  96.  Philadelphia, 
1862. 

Caldwell,  (C.) 

A  learned  physician  of  Philadelphia,  born  in  1772,  and  died  in  1853. 

—  Elegaic  Poem  on  the  Death  of  Washington.      12°.  pp.    12.     Phila- 

delphia, 1800. 

Caldwell,  (H.  H.)     Oliatta,  etc.     12°,  pp.   200.     New  York,  1855. 

—  Same.      12°.  pp.  134.     Boston,  1858. 
Caldwell,  (W.  W.) 

William  W.  Caldwell  was  born  at  Newburyport,  Mass.,  in  1923,  and  graduated  at 
Bowdoin  College  in  1843.    His  poetical  translations  are  Irom  the  German. 

—  Poems,  Original  and  Translated.  12°,  pp.  xii,  276.  Boston,  1857. 
Calendar  for  Birthdays.  (Anon.)  12°,  pp.  77.  Baltimore,  1866. 
California  Broadsides.     (Anon.)     No  place,  no  date. 

Call,  A  Solemn.  (By  a  Citizen  of  Newbuiyport.)  12°,  pp.  11.  New- 
buryport, no  date. 

Callao,  The  Ruin  of,  in  1746.     An  Opei-a.     24°,  pp.  30.    Lima,  1847. 

Callen,  (.J.)  Three  Cantos  of  a  Poem.  1.  The  Fate  of  Poets.  2.  The 
Apocalyptic  Vision.  3.  The  Progress  of  Art.  8°,  pp.  24.  Phila- 
delphia, 1835. 

Calvert,  (G.  H.) 

George  Henry  Calvert  was  born  at  Baltimore,  .January  2,  1803,  and  was  a  great- 
grandson  of  .Sir  George  Calvert,  the  first  Lord  Baltimore.  Ou  his  mother's  side  he  was  a 
lineal  descendant  of  the  painter  Rubens.  He  graduated  at  Harvard  in  1823,  and,  for  a 
time,  studied  at  Gottingen.  Returning  to  Baltimore,  he  was,  for  several  years,  editor  of 
the  Baltimore  American.  In  1843  he  removed  to  Newpoit,  H.  I.,  making  that  city  his 
permanent  residence.  His  fellow-citizens  elected  him  Mayor  in  1853,  which  position  he 
filled  most  acceptably.  His  present  residence  (1880)  is  Newport,  R.  I.  The  Literary 
World,  as  quoted  by  Allibone,  says:  "  Mr.  Calvert  is  a  scholar  of  refined  tastes  and  sus- 
ceptibilities, educated  in  the  school  of  Goethe,  who  looks  upon  the  world  at  home  and 
abroad  in  the  light  not  merely  of  genial  and  Ingenious  refiection,  but  with  an  eye  of  philo- 
sophical, practical  improvement." 

—  Anyta,  etc.      12°,  pp.  vii,  170.      Boston,  1866. 


50  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

Calvert,  (G.  H.) — Continued. 

—  Aniokl  and  Andre.      12°,  pp.  95.     Boston,  1864. 

—  Cabiro.     Cantos  I  and  II.      12°,  pp.  36.     Baltimore,  1810. 

—  Same.     Cantos  III  and  IV.     12°,  pp.  87.     Boston,  1864. 

—  Comedies.     12°,  pp.  125.     Boston,  1856. 

—  Count  Julian.      12°,  pp.  69.     Baltimore,  1840. 

—  Don  Carlos.     A  Dramatic  Poem.     Translated  from   Schiller.      12°, 

pp.  203.     Baltimore,  1834. 

—  Ellen.      12°,  pp.  48.     New  York,  1869. 

—  Same.      12°,  pp.  57.     New  York,  1869. 

—  Mirabeau.     An  Historical  Drama.     Lg.  16°,  pp.  103.    Boston,  1883. 

—  Poems.     12°,  pp.  125.     Boston,  1847. 

—  Sibyl.     Sq.  18°,  pp.  55.      Boston,  1883. 

—  Threescore,  etc.      12°,  pp.  90.     Boston,  1883. 

Camille  ;  OR,  The  Fate  of  a  Coquette.     (Anon.)     12°,  pp.  42.     New 
York,  no  date. 

—  Same.     12°,  pp.  64.     New  York,  no  date. 

Campbell,  (E.  R.)     The  Heroine  of  Scutari,  etc.     12°,  pp.  334.     New 

York,  1857. 
Campbell,  (J.  W.) 

John  W.  Campbell  was  born  near  Miller's  Iron  Works,  Augusta  county,  Va.,  Feb- 
ruary 23,  1782,  removed  to  Bourbon  county,  Ky.,  in  1791,  was  in  large  measure  self-edu- 
cated, admitted  to  the  bar,  in  Ohio  in  1808,  rose  rapidly  in  his  profession,  elected  Demo- 
cratic Representative  to  Congress  in  the  fall  of  181C,  and  was  in  Congress  ten  years,  at  the 
end  of  which  period  he  removed  to  Brown  county,  Ohio,  where  he  settled  on  a  farm.  In 
1829  he  was  appointed  District  Judge  of  the  United  States  for  the  State  of  Ohio,  and  in 
1831  removed  to  Columbus,  which  was  his  home  until  his  death,  September  4, 1833.  A 
volume  of  his  works,  compiled  by  his  widow,  was  published  at  Columbus,  Ohio,  in  1838. 
In  this  volume  (pp.  170-80)  are  nine  sliort  poems,  the  production  of  his  pen. 

Canadian  Ballads.     (Anon.)     12°,  pp.  viii,  124.     No  place,  no  date. 
Canary  Bird,  The.     (Anon.)     18°,  pp.  72.     Philadelphia,  1830. 

Canfield,  (Mrs.  A.  S.)  Alida  ;  or,  Miscellaneous  Sketches  of  Incidents 
during  the  late  American  War,  i.  e.,  of  1812.  With  Poems. 
12°,  pp.  xi,  241.     New  York,  1841. 

Canning,  (J.  D.)     Poems.     18°,  pp.  viii,  205.    Greenfield,  Mass.,  1838. 

Josiah  D.  Canning,  of  Gill,  Mass.,  wrote  under  the  signature  of  the  Peasant  Bard. 

—  Thanksgiving  Eve.      18°,  pp.  48.     Greenfield,  1838. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  51 

Cannon,  (C.  J.) 

Born  in  1800;  died  in  1860. 

—  Dramas.      12°,  pp.  335.     New  York,  1857. 

—  The  Oath  of  Office.     A  Tragedy.     12°,  pp.  91.     New  York,  1854. 

—  The  Poet's  Guest.      12°,  pp.  72.     New  Y'ork,  1841. 

Carey,  (Alice.) 

Alice  Carey  W.18  born  at  "Clovernook,"  near  Cincinnati,  in  April  18^0,  began  to  pub- 
lish her  rythmic  compositions  at  the  age  of  eighteen  in  the  Cincinnati  press.  In  1850  she 
removed,  with  her  sister  Phoebe,  to  New  York,  which  became  licr  permanent  residence. 
Her  poetry  takes  liigh  rank  among  the  productions  of  American  poets,  and  lias  received 
warm  commendations  from  Griswold,  Prof.  Hart,  Whitaker  and  Bryant.  She  died  in 
1871. 

—  A  Lover's  Diary.      With  Ilhistrations.      Sq.  1G°,  pp.  ix,  240.      Bos- 
*      ton,  1868. 

—  Ballads,  Lyrics  and  Hymns.      16°,  pp.  333.     New  Y'ork,  1866. 

—  Lyra,  and  other  Poems.      12°,  pp.  178.     New  York,  1852. 

—  Poems.      1G°,  pp.  ix,  399.     Boston,  1855. 
Carey,  (M.) 

Mattliew  Carey  was  born  in  Dublin,  Ireland,  in  1760.  In  1783  he  came  to  the  I'nited 
States,  where  he  resided  until  his  death  in  IS.S'J.  (See  Duyckinck,  vol.  i,  pp.  tJiO-41. 
AUibone,  vol.  i,  p.  340.) 

—  The  Columbian  Muse.     Selections.     12°,  pp.  224.     New  York,  1794. 

—  The  Plagi-Scun-iliad.     8°,  pp.  xi,  27.     Philadelphia,  1786. 

The  Plagi-Scurriliad  is  called  a  "  Hudibrastic  Poem,"  and  is  dedicated  to  Col.  Kleazer 
Oswald,  who  had  made  what  he  conceived  to  be  »  scurrilous  attack  on  him  as  a  journal- 
ist.   The  following  is  the  "  Approbation  "  : 

"  In  the  Court  of  their  Majesties,  Detraction,  Scurrility  and  Dullness  : 
"Present  —  their  -Majesties  in  Council : 

"Having  duly  examined  the  Iludibraslic  poem,  styled  the  Plagi-Scurriliad,  written  by 
Matthew  Carey,  and  dedicated  to  our  right-trusty,  well-beloved  and  long-adopte<l  son, 
Colonel  Eleazer  Oswald,  proprietor  of  our  chosen  paper,  the  Independent  Gazetteer,  — we 
do  hereby  declare  our  most  hearty  approbation  thereof,  —  and  our  strongest  hopes,  that 
all  our  friends  in  the  upper  regions  will  be  thereby  more  fully  enabled  to  conform  to  our 
precepts,  agreeably  to  the  e.xample  of  our  son. 

"Given  at  our  Court  in  Pandemonium  the  third  day  of  the  ides  of  March,  in  the  year 
of  our  reign  five  thousand  seven  hundred  and  eighty-nine. 
"Signed, 

"  \VlIISPKI{,  \ 

"  Dikt-Daub,     I   Secy^'" 
"  Blociv-iii:ai),  ) 

—  The  Porcupiniad.     A  Hudibrastic  Poem.      In    Four  Cantos.      Canto 

I.      12°,  pp.  vii.  52.      Philadelphia,  1799. 
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52  HAEKIS    COLLECTION. 

Carey,  (Piuebe.) 

Phabe  Carey,  a  sister  of  Alice,  was  born  at  "  Clovernook  "  in  1828.  She  removed  to 
New-York  in  1860,  and  the  fortunes  of  the  sisters  were  substantially  one  and  the  same. 
She  died  in  1S71. 

—  Poems  and  Parodies.      12°,  pp.  200.     Boston,  1854. 

—  Poems   of  Faith,  Hope   and  Love.     12°,   pp.   v,   249.     New  York, 

1868. 
Carleton,  (G.  W.)       Our  Artist  in  Cuba.      Fifty  drawings    in   wood. 
Leaves  from  the   Sketeh-Book  of  a  Traveller  during  the  winter  of 
1864-5.     16°,  pp.  50.     New  York,  1865. 

Carleton,  (W.)     Farm  Ballads.     Illustrated.     Lg.  8°,  pp.   108.     New 

York,  1873. 
Carman,  (A.  F.)     The  '^  Fast"  Age.     8°,  pp.  (with  Oration  by  A.  H. 

Green)  42.     Troy,  1854. 

Carpenter,  (AY.  H.),  and  Arthur  (T.  S.),  Editors.     The  Bahimore 
Book.      12°,  pp.  296.     Baltimore,  1838. 

Carter,   (B.   M.)     Miscellaneous  Poems.     12°,   pp.  95.     Philadelphia, 

1820. 
Carter,  (N.  H.) 

Nathaniel  H.  Carter  was  born  at  Concord,  N.  H.,  September  17, 1787,  and  graduated  at 
Dartmouth  College  in  1811.  Among  liis  classmates  were  Rev.  Dr.  William  Cogswell,  Hon. 
Amos  Kendall,  Hon.  Joel  Parker  and  Hon.  Ether  Shepley.  After  teaching  for  a  time,  he 
removed  to  New  Y'ork,  and  in  1819  became  the  editor  of  The  Statesman,  the  organ  of  the 
party  which  supported  De  Witt  Clinton.  He  visited  Europe  in  1825,  and  published  in  1827 
two  volumes,  comprising  his  Journal  of  his  Tour.    He  died  at  Marseilles  in  January,  1830. 

—  Pains  of  Imagination.       A  Phi  Beta  Kappa  Poem.     Dartmouth  Col- 
lege, August  19,  1824.     8°,  pp.  v,  31.     New  York,  1824. 

The  author  says  ;  "  The  Poem  was  intended  as  a  counterpart  of  '  The  Pleasures  of 
Imagination,'  by  Akenside,  although  it  was  written  without  a  single  recurrence  to  the 
pages  of  that  work,  or,  indeed,  to  any  other,  with  the  exception  of  a  passage  in  Virgil, 
for  the  purpose  of  ascertaining  the  correctness  of  a  classical  allusion." 

Cartland,  (M.)  An  Epistolary  Lament.  Supposed  to  have  been  writ- 
ten by  a  surviving  Hunker  soon  after  the  New  Hampshire  election. 
12°,  pp.  24.     Concord,  N.  H.,  1855. 

Carver,   (W.)     Select  Pieces  in   Prose  and  Verse,      12°,  pp.  36.     New 

York,  1834. 
Carter,    (Sarah    C.)      Lexicon   of   Ladies'   Names,   Avith   their   Floral 

Emblems.      18°,  pp.  208.     Boston,  1853. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  53 

Cart,  (A.  B.)      Florence  Nightingale  ;  or,  The  Angel  of  Charity.    8°,  pp. 
32.     Brooklyn,  1857. 

Case,  (W.)      Title  written,  not  printed.     Poems  Occasioned  by  Several 
Circumstances.      12°,  pp.  iv,  20.     New  Haven,  1778. 

Judge  Greene  says  :  "  I  think  this  copy  is  the  original  edition,  wanting  the  title-page 
and  two  leaves  at  the  end,  and  not  the  edition  of  which  I  liave  copied  the  title-page." 

—  Revolutionary   Memorials.      "With    an    Appendix.      Edited    by  Rev. 

Stephen  Dodd.      12°,  pp.  69.     New  York,  1852. 

Cassels,  (S.  J.)     Providence,  etc.      12°,  pp.  356.     Macon,  Ga.,  1838. 

CatHley,  (C.)     The  Ship  Union  and  her  Pilot.     8°,  pp.  16.     New  York, 
1852. 

Cato's  Moral  Distiches.     Englished   in    Couplets.     Lg.   12°,  pp.   23. 
Philadelphia.     Printed  and  sold  by  B.  Franklin,  1735. 

The  name  of  the  author  is  unknown.  Scaliger's  opinion  is  that  he  was  an  uncon- 
verted Gentile,  who  lived  about  the  time  of  Commodus  or  Severus;  that  is,  the  beginning 
of  the  third  century. 

Caughey,  (A.  H.)      Home,  etc.      12°,  pp.  82.     New  York,  1862. 

Chace,  (L.   B.)     The  Y^oung  Man  About  Town.     A  Comedy.     8°,  pp. 
40.     New  York,  1854. 

Chair,  The  Old.      (Anon.)     12°,  pp.  12.     Boston,  1849. 

Ch ALLEN,    (J.) 

Rev.  James  Challen  was  born  at  Hackensack,  N.  J.,  and  was  a  publisher  in  Philadel- 
phia.   The  scene  of  this  poem  is  laid  in  the  Island  of  Mackinaw. 

—  Igdrasil;  or.  The  Tree  of  Existence.      12°,  pp.  170.     Philadelpliia, 

1859. 

—  Island  of  the  Giant  Fairies.     12°.  pp.  23.     Philadelphia,  1868. 

Chandler,  (Elizabeth  Margaret.) 

.She  was  born  at  Centre,  Del.,  near  Wilmington,  in  ISO'.  Early  in  life  she  removed  to 
Philadelphia,  wliere  she  remained  till  Ib'iO,  when  she  took  up  her  residence  near  the  village 
of  Tecumseh,  Mich.,  where  she  died  in  November,  18.34. 

—  Poetical  Works.     12°,  pp.  180.     Philadelphia,  1836. 

—  Same.      12°,  pp.  120.     Philadelphia,  1845. 

Chandler.  (Maria  F.)     The  Spirit  Harj).      12°.  pp.  viii.  1 12.     Spring- 
field, Mass.,  1851. 


54  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

Channing,  (W.  E.) 

William  Ellery  Clianniiifj,  nephew  ol'  liev.  Dr.  Cluinuing,  waa  born  June  10,  1818,  and 
is  the  author  of  several  tales  of  deserved  celebrity. 

—  Near  Home.      18°,  pp.  52.     Boston,  1858. 

—  Poems.      12°,  pp.  151.     Boston,  1843. 

—  The  Woodman,  etc.      12°,  pp.  92.     Boston,  1849. 

Chapin,  (P.)      Evangelic  Poetry.      12°,  pp.  iv,  207.     Concord,  1794. 

Chaplet,  The.     A  Collection  of  Poems  by  (E.  H.    C),  edited  by  Rev. 
Henry  D.  Moore.      12°,  pp.  x,  120.     Philadelphia,  1846. 

E.  H.  C.  is  the  pseud,  of  Rev.  Nathan  Davis.    The  letters,  E.  H.  C.  M.,  stand  for 
"  Editor  of  Hebrew  Christian  Magazine."  • 

Chaplet,  The  Mourners'.      (Anon.)     24°,  pp.  128.     Boston,  1844. 
Chapman,  (E.  H.)     The  Parsonage.      24°,  pp.  153.     Cleveland,  1849. 

Chapman,    (G.  W.)     A    Tribute    to    Kane,  etc.      12°,    pp.    161.     New 

York,  1860. 
Chard,  (T.  S.)     The  Waking.     Sq.  18°,  pp.  25.     Chicago,  1869. 

"  Charleston."     A  Poem.     Answered  by  a  Charleston  Lady.      12°,  pp. 
12.     No  place,  1848. 

Charleston   Book.      Prose  and  Verse.     (Anon.)     12°,   pp.   viii,  404. 
Charleston,  1845. 

Charlton,  (R.  M.  and  T.  J.,  M.D.) 

Judge  Robert  M.  Charlton  was  a  resident  of  Savannah,  Ga.    He  died  in  1854.    "  His 
compositions."  says  AUibone,  "  have  been  greatly  admired." 

—  Poems.      12°,  pp.  174.     Boston,  1839. 

Chase,    (Elizabeth.)      Miscellaneous    Selections,      12°,   pp.   228.     No 
place,  1821. 

Chase,  (L.  B.)     The  Spirit  of  '76.      12°,  pp.  59.     New  York,  1855. 

Chase,  (Mary  M.)     Writings.     Prose  and  Poetry.      12°,  pp.  xlvi,  336. 
Boston,   1855. 

Chatterton,  (A.)      Buds  of  Beauty,  etc.      18°,  pp.  x,  106.      Baltimore, 
1787. 

An  elegantly  bound  copy. 

Chester,    (J.    L.)      Greenwood    Cemetery,   etc.       12°,    pp.   132.     New 
York,  1843. 


AMERICAN^    POETRY.  55 

Cheever,  (E.) 

Ezekiel  Cheever  was  born  at  London,  January  25,  1615,  and  came  to  America  in  1637. 
For  twelve  years  he  taught  in  New  Haven,  of  which  Colony  he  was  one  of  the  original 
founders.  In  1661  he  removed  to  Charlestown,  Mass.  For  thirty-eight  years  he  was  a 
teacher  iu  tlie  Boston  Latin  School,  and  the  memory  of  "Master"  Cheever  is  held  in 
grateful  recollection  to  this  day.    He  died  August  21,  1708. 

—  Selections  from  liis  MS.  Poems.     8°,  pp.  3.     Boston,  1828. 
Cheever,  (G.  B.) 

George  Barrett  Cheever  was  born  at  Hallowell,  Me.,  April  17,  1807,  and  was  a  grad- 
uate of  Bowdoin  College  in  1825,  Longfellow  and  Hawthorne  being  classmates.  He  set- 
tled in  Salem,  Slass.,  as  a  Congregational  minister  in  1833,  and  made  himself  famous  by 
his  publication  of  his  famous  "Deacon  Giles's  Distillery,"  for  which  a  certain  distiller 
prosecuted  him,  and  he  was  condemned  to  prison  for  thirty  days.  He  removed  to  New 
York  in  18-39,  and  was  pastor  of  the  Church  of  the  Puritans,  1846-07.  (See  AUibone  for  list 
of  his  writings.) 

—  The  American   Common-Pluce   Book.      12°,  pp.  405.     Philadelphia, 

1839. 

—  Same.      1841. 

—  The  Poets  of  America.      12%  pp.  405.     Hartford,  1852. 

XHNiiJIA ;  OR,  The  Classical  Mother  Goose.    Sq.  18°,  pp.  28.    Cam- 
bridge.    Printed  (not  published)  1871. 

Cheveley,  Lady;  ok,    The  Woman  of  Honour.     (Anon.)     16°,  pp. 

47.     Philadelphia,  1839. 
CiiEYES,  (E.  W.F.)      Sketches   in  Prose  and  Verse.      12°,  pp.  xv,  2G4. 

Baltimore,  1849. 
Child's  First  Catechism.     (Anon.)     18°,  pp.  17.     Providence,  1840. 

Children  in  the   Wood.      (Anon.)      A    Musical    Piece  in   Two    Acts. 
12°,  pp.  30.     Boston,  no  date. 

—  (Anon.)      18°,  pp.  57.     New  York,  1795. 

Chimasia  :  A   Reply  to   Longfellow's  Tlieologian.      (By  Orthos,  pseud.) 

12°,  pp.  96.     Philadelphia,  1864. 
Chisel,  (C.)      Lamentation  of  Free  Ma.sonry.      12°,  pp.  22.     Norwich, 

1829. 
Chittenden,  (A.  J.)      Candidating   Fair,  The.     A    Student's  Dream  of 

Trial  Preaching.      (Anon.)     12°,  pp.  48.     Andovcr,  Mass.,  1873. 
Chiveks,  (T.  H.)      Conrad  and   Eudora  ;  or,  The  Deatli  of  Alonzo.   .A 

Tragedy.      16°,  pp.  144.     Philadelphia,  1834. 


56  IIAKKIS    COLLECTION. 

Chivers,  (T.  H.) — Gont'umcd. 

—  Eonchs  of  Ruby.      12°,  pp.  168.     Now  York,  1851, 

—  Naeooi'liee  ;  or,  Tlie  Beautiful  Star,  etc.      12°,  pp.  143.     New  York, 

1837. 

—  ^'irll:illalia  ;   or,   Songs  of  my  Summer  Nights,      12°,  pp.  132.      Phil- 

adelphia, 1853. 
Christian  Year,  The.     For  Children.     (Anon.)      12°,  pp.  144.     New 

York,  1850. 
Christie,   (W.)      Select   Psalms,  etc.     8°,  pp.  viii,  58.     Philadelphia, 

1821. 
Church,  (B.) 

Benjamin  Church,  M.  D.,  was  born  at  Newport,  R.  I.,  in  1734,  graduated  at  Harvard 
in  1754,  studied  medicine  in  London,  and  settled  in  Boston.  _  Being  an  outspoken  Tory, 
he  was  prosecuted  and  banished,    He  died  in  1776* 

—  A  Poem  on  Governor  Jonathan   Law,  of  Connecticut.     Sq.  8°.     No 

place,  1751. 

—  The  Choice.     12°,  pp.  15.     Boston,  1757. 

—  Same.     12°,  pp.  16.     Worcester,  1802. 

—  The  Christian.     A  Poem   in  Four  Books.     16°,  pp.  111.     Philadel- 

phia, 1783. 
Church,  (E.)     The  Dangerous  Vice A  Fragment.     8°,  pp.  16. 

Columbia,  1789. 
Church  Knaviad  ;  or,  Horace  in  West  Haven.     (Anon.)     18°,  pp. 

91.     New  Haven,  1864. 
Cist,  (L.  J.) 

Lewis  J.  Cist  was  born  at  Harmony,  Pa.,  November  20,  1818,  and  removed  to  Cincin- 
nati wlien  a  cliild,  residing  in  that  city  till  1850,  when  lie  took  up  his  residence  in  St. 
Louis  and  became  Assistant  Cashier  in  a  leading  bank.  He  distinguished  himself  as 
among  the  most  devoted  and  successful  collectors  of  chirographic  curiosities  in  the  United 

States. 

—  Trifles  in  Verse.      12°,  pp.  184.     Cincinnati,  1845. 

City  People,  Our.  By  One  of  'Em.  (Anon.)  12°,  pp.  27.  Wash- 
ington, 1874. 

Civil  War.  A  Poem  Written  in  the  Year  1775.  (Anon.)  4°,  pp.  35. 
No  place,  no  date. 

The  author's  own  copy,  interleaved  with  .additions  and  corrections. 

C^ACK,  (Mrs.  Louise.)     General  Lee  and  Santa  Claus.     Large  12°,  pp. 

26.     New  York,   1867. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  57 

Clapp,  (S.  C.) 

Samuel  Capen  Clapp  was  born  April  1,  1810,  and,  at  the  age  of  fifteen,  was  put  appren- 
tice to  learn  the  printing  business.  For  both  vocal  and  instrumental  music  he  had  a 
decided  taste,  as  well  as  for  poetry.  His  poems  were  designed  chiefly  to  be  the  accom- 
paniment of  favorite  tunes.    He  died  October  28,  1831. 

—  Poetic  Selections.     12°,  pp.  12.     Boston,  1832. 

Clapp,  (W.  W.,  Jr.)      La  Fiammina.     Founded  upon  a  French  Plav. 
by  Maria  Uchard.      12°,  pp.  35.     Boston,  no  date. 

—  My  Husband's    Mirror.       A   Domestic    Comedietta.      12°,   pp.   14, 

Boston,  no  date. 

Clark,  (Annie  E.)     Poems.     18°,  pp.  146.     Philadelphia,  1866. 

Clark,  (L.)     Kendridge  Hall,  etc.     12°,  pp.  113.     Washington,  1859. 

Clark,  (R.  E.)     The  First  Book  of  Paradise  Lost,  in  Rhyme.      12°,  pp. 
32.     Lynchburg,   1867. 

Clark,  (S.  T.)     Josephine,  etc.     12°,  pp.  239.     Boston,  1856. 

Clark,  (W.  A.)     The  Learned  AYorld.    8°,  pp.  xvii,  270.    Boston,  1864. 

Clarke,   (G.  W.)     The  Dreams  of  Pindus.     18°,  pp.   115.     Pliiladel- 
phia,  1829. 

—  The  Wreath  of  the  West.     18°,  pp.  115.     Philadelphia,  1828. 

Clarke,  (J.)     The  Boss  Devil  of  America.     Sq.  18°,  pp.  109.     Boston, 

1878. 
Clarke,  (Mrs.  M.  B.) 

Mary  Bayard  Devereux  was  born  in  Raleigli,  N.  C,  married  AV.  J.  Clarke,  and  resided 
for  some  time  at  San  Antonio  de  Bexar,  West  Texas,  but  subsequently  returned  to  her 
native  State. 

—  Wood   Notes,  or  Carolina   Carols.      A   Collection  of  North  Carolina 

Poetry,  compiled  by  Tenella  (pseud.),  in  two  vols.      12°,  pp.  237  ; 
237.     Raleigh,  1854. 

—  Mosses  from  a  Rolling  Stone.      18°,  pp.  168.     Raleigh,  N.  C,  1866. 

Clarke,  (McD.) 

McDonald  Clarke,  known  as  "  The  Mad  Poet,"  was  born  at  New  London,  Conn.,  .Tune 
18,  17'.i8,  and  removed  to  New  York  not  far  from  the  year  1819.  He  died  March  5,  1842.  It 
is  said  that  "  it  was  his  hobby  to  fall  in  love  with,  and  celebrate  in  his  rhymes,  the  belles 
of  the  city.    This  was  sometimes  annoying,  however  well  meant  on  the  part  of  the  poet." 

—  A  Farce  ;  or,  The  Belles  of  Broadway.     8°.     Part  I,  pp.  24.     Part 

III,  pp.  24.     New  York,  1829. 


58  HAKRIS    COLLECTION. 

Clarke,  (McD..)  —  Continued. 

—  Afava  III.      12°,  pp.  20.     New  York,  1829. 

—  Death   ill  Disguise.     A  Temperance  Poem.      18°,  pp.  36.     Boston, 

1833. 

—  Poems.     12°,  pp.  288.     New  York,  1830. 

—  Sketches.      18°,  pp.  128.     New  York,  1826. 

—  The  Elixir  of  Moonshine,  etc.     16°,  pp.  150.     Gotham,  5822. 

—  The  Gossip.     No.  one.      18°,  pp.  223.-    New  York,  1823i, 

Clarke,  (Mrs.  M.J.)     The  Child's  First  Catechism.     2d  Edition.      18°, 
pp.  18.     Providence,  1864. 

Clark,  (W.  G.) 

"Willis  Gaylord  Clark  was  born  in  Otisco,  N.  Y.,  in  1810.  As  editor  and  proprietor  of 
the  Philadelphia  Gazette  he  secured  a  wide  and  justly  deserved  reputation.  He  furuislied 
a  number  of  articles  for  the  "  New  York  Knickerbocker  Magazine,"  wliich  subsequently 
were  introduced  into  "  Ollapodiana."    He  died  in  1841. 

—  Poems  in  "  Literary  Remains."     8°.     New  York,  1844. 

—  Poetical  Writings.     First  Complete  Edition.     24°,  pp.   156.     New 

Y'ork,  1847. 

—  Second  Complete  Edition. 

—  The  Past  and  Present.      12°,  pp.  xii,  23.     Boston,  1834. 

—  The   Spirit  of  Life.     A   poem  before  the  Franklin  Society,  Brown 

University,   September    3,   1833.      12°,  pp.  x,  71.      Philadelphia, 
1833. 
Clarke,  (T.)     Sir  Copp.     A  Poem  for  the  Times.     12°,  pp.  viii,  122. 
Chicago,  1865. 

Clarkson,  (H.  M.)      Evelyn;    A  Romance  of  "The  War  Between  the 
States,"  etc.     12°,  pp.  69.     Charleston,  S.  C,  1871. 

Clarkson,  (L.)     Rag  Fair,  with  Illustrations   by  the  Author.     4°,  not 
paged.     Philadelphia,  1879. 

Clason,  (I.  S.) 

Isaac  S.  Clason  was  born  at  New  York  in  1706,  and  died  in  1830.  (Difference  of 
authority  where  he  was  born.  Allibone  says,  2796,-  Lippincott,  J759.  Take  your  choice.) 
He  wrote  17th  and  18th  Cantos,  a  continuation  of  Byron's  Don  Juan. 

—  Horace  in  New  York.     Part  I.     12°,  pp.  47.     New  York,  1826. 

Class  Poem,  Harvard.  1857.     (Anon.)     8°,  pp.  30.     New  York,  1857. 

Cleaveland,  (Mrs.  E.  H.  J.)     No  Sects  in  Heaven,  etc.     Sq.  16°,  pp. 
95.     New  York,  1869. 


AMERICAX    POETRY.  59 

Clemmer,  (Mary.)      Poems  of  Life  and  Nature.     12°,  pp.  279.     Boston, 

1883. 
Clifford,  (F.)     The  Present  Age.     12%  pp.  28.     New  York,  1851. 
Cliffton,  (W.) 

William  Cliffton  was  born  at  Philadelphia  in  1772,  his  father  being  a  wealthy  mechanic 
in  the  Society  of  Friends.  About  the  time  of  his  majority  he  renounced  the  Quaker  dress, 
and  turned  his  attention  to  music  and  drawing.  He  was  a  warm  friend  of  the  Adminis- 
tration, and  vindicated  it  in  several  satires,  the  longest  of  which  is  "The  Group."  He 
died  in  1799. 

—  The  Group  ;  or,  An  Elegant  Eepresentation.     A  Farce.     18°,  pp.  16. 

Philadelphia,  1795. 

—  Same.     Illustrated.     Sm.  4°,  pp.  35. 

—  Poems.     18°,  pp.  xviii,  119.     New  York,  1800. 

—  Tit  for  Tat.     8°,  pp.  25.     Philadelphia,  1796(?). 
CoAQL'ANOCK.     A   Song  of  Many  Summers,  in  Four  Cantos.     Sq.  12°, 

pp.  GO.     Published  by  "The  Germantown  Social  Publication  Co." 
Philadelphia,  1878. 

Coaxes,  (E.  R.),  and  Rogers,  (Axx   L.)     Offering.     Lg.  8°,  pp.  59. 
Philadelphia,  no  date. 

Cobb,  (C.  F.)     The  Vision  of  Judgment  Revived.     8°,  pp.  20.     Wash- 
ington, 1870. 
Mr.  Cobb  has  written  under  the  signature  of  "  Bloc." 

Cobb,  (Mary  L.)     Poetical   Dramas  for  Home  and    School.     12°,  pp. 

189.     Boston,  1873. 
Cochrane,  (C.  B.)     Mimosa,  etc.     12°,  pp,  112.     New  York,  1869. 

Cookings,  (G.) 

George  Cookings,  in  his  Preface  to  "  War:  An  Heroic  Poem,"  says  :  "  I  was  born  in 
Devonshire,  in  the  west  of  England;  lived  great  part  of  my  time  in  Dartmouth,  in  Devon; 
from  thence  came  to  Newfoundland,  where  I  have  lived  several  years,  between  the  inter- 
vals of  going  out  and  home;  and  from  thence  came  now  to  Boston;  thus  far  concerning 
myself." 

In  the  "  Biographia  Dramatica,"  vol.  i,  part  1,  p.  132,  is  the  following:  "  Cockings, 
George,  had,  In  early  life,  a  small  place  under  Government,  at  Boston,  in  America.  In 
the  latter  part  of  his  life  he  was  in  England,  and,  on  the  resignation  of  Mr.  Shepley, 
obtained  the  place  of  Register  of  the  Society  of  Arts,  Manufactures  and  Commerce  in  the 
Adelphi,  which  he  held  for  thirty  years,  and  died  the  0th  of  February,  1802.  He  was  the 
author  of  a  poem  entitled  '  The  American  War,'  and,  at  one  time,  read  Milton,  etc.,  by 
way  of  a  lecture  to  his  friends.  Beside  the  above  mentioned  poem,  he  wrote  several  other 
wretched  performances,  and  among  the  rest  one  play  called  'The  Conquest  of  Canada; 
or,  The  Siege  of  Quebec.  An  Historical  Tragedy.  8^,  170().'  The  signature  over  which 
Cockings  wrote  in  this  country  was  '  Camillo  Querno,  Poet  Laureate  to  Congress.'  " 

11 


GO  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

Cookings,   (G.)  —  Continued. 

—  Arts,  Manufactures  and  Commerce.     8°,  pp.  iv,  36.     London,  1772. 

Bound  in  tlie  same  volume,  "  Benevolence  and  Gratitude."  8'^,  pp.  ii,  44.  London, 
1772. 

—  War:    An    Heroic    Poem.     From    the    Taking  of  Minorca   by  the 

French,  etc.     12°,  pp.  xvi,  190.     Boston,  1762. 

Bound  up  with  this  volume  is  the  author's  "  Britannia's  Oall  to  her  Brave  Troops  and 
Hardy  Tars."    pp.  46. 

This  copy  of  Cooking's  "  War  "  was  the  property  of  Silvanus  Hopkins,  Esq.,  Furnace 
Hope,  Scituate  K.  I.  Mr.  Bartlett  says  that  "  this  poem  was  popular  in  its  day,  and  passed 
through  four  editions.  There  were  earlier  editions,  or  portions  of  the  poem,  on  '  War,' 
published  without  date."  In  addition  to  the  works  of  Cockiugs  referred  to,  it  may  be  men- 
tioned that  he  was  also  author  of  " Sifintorian  Eloqitence  and  Medical  JnfaUibilit]/,"  a 
satire  in  verse  on  itinerant  preachers,  published  in  1771;  and  of  "Benevolence  and  Grati- 
tude," a  poem,  published  in  1773. 

—  Same.     4°,  pp.  28.     London  and  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  1792. 

CODMAN,  (H.)  The  Roman  Martyrs.  A  Tragedy  in  Three  Acts.  Lg. 
12°,  pp.  83.     Providence,  1879. 

Cody,  (I.)  Tragedy.  Founded  on  the  History  of  Joseph  and  his  Breth- 
ren.     12°,  pp.  63.     Schenectady,  1808. 

COE,  (R.) 

Richard  Coe  was  born  at  Philadelphia,  of  Quaker  parents,  February  1.3,  1821.  "His 
pieces,"  says  Griswold,  "  are  marked  by  refinement  of  feeling,  and  have  frequently  a 
quaintness  reminding  us  of  some  of  the  older  religious  poets." 

—  Poems.     8°,  pp.  117.     Philadelphia,  1850. 

—  The  Old  Farm  Gate.     16°,  pp.  159.     Philadelphia,  1852. 

CoFFEEN,  (J.   F.)     The  Fate  of  Genius,  etc.      12°,  pp.  72.     Cincinnati, 

1835. 
CoFFENBERY,  (A.)      The   Forest  Rangers.     A  Poet  Tale  of  the  Western 

Wilderness  of  1794.     12°,  pp.  iv,  220.     Columbus,  1842. 

Coffin,  (A.,  Jr.)  Death  of  General  Montgomery.  18°,  pp.  71.  New 
York,  1814. 

Coffin,  (N.  W.)  America.  An  Ode,  etc.  16°,  pp.  viii,  124.  Bos- 
ton, 1843. 

Coffin,  (R.  S.) 

Robert  Stevenson  Coffin  was  born  at  Brunswick,  Me.,  1797(  ?) .  For  some  time  he  worked 
at  his  trade  as  a  printer,  in  Newburyport,  Mass.  During  the  war  of  1812  he  was  a  sailor, 
and  was  captured  and  held  as  a  prisoner  on  board  a  British  frigate.  After  the  war  he 
continued  to  work  at  his  trade  in  Boston,  New  York  and  Philadelphia.  He  died  at  Row- 
ley, Mass.,  in  1857.    He  was  self-styled  "  The  Boston  Bard." 


AMERICAN    POETEY.  61 

Coffin,  (R.  S.) — Continued. 

—  Life   of  the   Boston  Bard,  written  by  himself.      12%  pp.  303.     Mt. 

Pleasant,  N.  Y.,  1825. 

—  Miscellaneous  Poems.     18°,  pp.  vi,  156.     Philadelphia,  1818. 

—  Oriental  Harp.     8°,  pp.  252.     Providence,  182G. 

—  Poems  by  the  Boston  Bard.     24%  pp.  64.     New  York,  1823. 

—  The  Eleventh  Hour  ;  or.  Confessions  of  a  Consumptive.     12°,  pp.  36. 

Boston,   1827. 

—  The  Printer,  etc.      12%  pp.  iv,  84.     Boston,  1819. 

Cole,  (J.)      The  American   War.     An   Ode.      12°,   pp.  66.     No  place, 
date  written  in  pencil,  1779. 

An  imperfect  copy.    Six  pages  of  the  Preface  and  the  Appendix  wanting. 

Cole,  (S.  AV.)     The  Muse.     18°,  pp.  vi,  216.     Cornish,  Me.,  1827. 

Coles,    (A.)     Dies    Ira^,  in    Thirteen    Original  Versions.     18°,  pp.  65. 
New  York,  1859. 

—  Same.     2d  Edition.     8°,  pp.  xxxiv,  65.     1860. 

Colesworthy,  (D.  C.) 

Daniel  C.  Colesworthy  was  born  at  rortlaad,  Me.,  July  14,  1810,  was  a  practical 
printer,  and  an  editor  and  poet. 

—  The  Year.     12°,  pp.  114.     Bostoii,  1873. 

COLGAN,  (W.  J.)     Poems.      12°,  pp.  112.     New  York,  1844. 

Collectanea.     Compiled  by  S.  C.  Stevens.     Sm.  24°,  pp.  144.     Haver- 
hill, N.  H.,  1823. 

Collection  of  Verses.     Applied  to  November  1,  1765,  etc.,  including  a 

prediction  that  the  S p  A 1  shall  not  take  place  in  North 

America.     Also  a   Poetical  Dream   concerning   Stamped   Papers. 
8°,  pp.  24.     New  Haven,  no  date. 

College  Musings  ;  ok.  Twigs  from  Parnassus.       (Anon.)     18°,  pp. 
X,  110.     Tuscaloosa,  Ala.,  1833. 

CoLLEGiAD,  The.     (Anon.)      12°,  pp.  14.     London,  1837. 

Collins,  (J.)     The  Rumseller's  Last  Dream.     Sq.  18°,  pp.  7.     Noplace, 
no  date. 


62  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

COLMAX,    (B.,  D.D.) 

nenjnmin  Colman  was  born  at  Boston  in  lOra,  graduated  at  Harvard  College  in  :693, 
and  was  the  first  minister  of  the  Brattle  Street  Church,  Boston.    He  died  in  1747. 

—  Elegy  on    his    Death.      (0.   E.     Anon.)     16°,   pp.  8.     Boston,  no 

date.  • 

—  Poem  on   the   Death  of  Rev.   Samuel  AVillard.      Bound    with    Rev. 

Mr.  Peraberton's  Sermon.      18°,  pp.  14.     Boston,  1707. 
Elegantly  bound. 

Colman,  (J.  F.)     The  Island  Bride,  etc.     12°,  pp.  164.     Boston,  1846. 

Colman,  (Miss.)     Wild  Flowers.     24°,  pp.  126.     Boston,  1846. 

Colt,  (Mrs.  Theodora  D.  W.)  Stray  Fancies.  8°,  pp.  219.  Boston, 
1872. 

COLTON,  (G.  H.) 

George  H.  Colton  was  born  at  Westford,  Otsego  county,  N.  Y.,  October  29, 1818,  grad- 
uated at  Yale  in  1840,  became  editor  and  proprietor  in  1844  of  "  The  American  Review,  a 
Whig  journal,"  etc.,  and  occupied  this  position  till  his  death,  December  1, 1847.  His  poem, 
"  Tecumseh,''  was  written  when  he  was  but  twenty-three  years  of  age,  and  is  highly  com- 
mended in  Griswokl's  "  Poets  and  Poetry  of  America,"  p.  541,  edition  1860. 

—  Tecumseh;  or.  The  West   Thirty  Years   Since.     12°,  pp.  vii,  312. 

New  York,  1842. 

Columbia,  Genius  of.     A  MS.     (Anon.)     4°.     No  place,  no  date. 

Columbian   Lyre,  The.     Specimens  of  Transatlantic  Poetry.     18°,  pp. 

300.  Glasgow,  1828. 
Companion,  The  Poet's,  and  Rhyming  Dictionary.     (Anon.)    12°,  pp. 

70.  New  York,  1849. 
CoMFiELD,   (Mrs.  Amelia  S.)     Alida ;  or,  Miscellaneous  Sketches,  etc. 

12°,  pp.  240.     New  York,  1849. 

Conant,  (vS.  S.)  The  Circassian  Boy.  Translated  through  the  German, 
from  the  Russian  of  Michail  LermontofF.  Sq.  18°,  pp.  87.  Bos- 
ton, 1875. 

Concise  Answer  to  the  question.  Who  and  What  are  the  Shakers?  18°, 
pp.  16.     Stockbridge,  Mass.,  1826. 

Condottieri,  The.     Two  Poems.     (Anon.)    12°,  pp.  vii,  59  and  20.    A 

Satire.     Philadelphia,  1821. 

The  first  of  these  two  poems  relates  the  adventures  of  the  Condottieri,  bands  of  law- 
less and  independent  soldiery,  who,  early  in  the  seventeenth  century,  became  the  terror 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  63 

* 
CONDOTTIERI,  The. —  (^Continued.) 

and  the  scourge  of  Italy.  It  is  dedicated  to  Robert  Walsli,  Esq.  The  second  poem,  dedi- 
cated  to  Alexander  S.  Coxe,  Esq.,  is  a  satirical  portrait  of  the  follies  of  Philadelphia 
Society. 

Cone,  (S.  W.)     The  Proud  Ladye,  etc.      18°,   pp.    144.     New  York, 

1840. 
Conference  on  Society  and  Manners  in  Massachusetts.      (Anon.) 

18°,  pp.         Boston,  1820. 
Conference,  The;  or.  Sketches  ofWesleyan  Methodism.      (Anon.) 

12°,  pp.  92.     Bridgeton,  N.  J.,  1823. 

CoNGDON,   (Caroline  M.)     The  Guardian  Angel,  etc.     12°,  pp.  250. 
Auburn,  1857. 

CONGDON,    (C.  T.) 

A  well-known  American  writer,  connected  for  many  years  with  the  Keio  York  Tri- 
bune. He  was  born  at  New  Bedford,  Mass.,  and  pursued  his  studies  for  a  time  in  Brown 
University. 

—  Flowers  Plucked  by  a  Traveller  on  the  Journey  of  Life.      12°,  pp.  71. 

Boston,  1840. 
Congress.     The  Dogs,  in  three  Chantlets.     An  autograph  MS.   neatly 
written.     8°,  not  paged.     No  place.     Written  not  far  from  1778. 

"A  dirty  poem,  much  in  the  style  of  Dean  Swift,  intended  to  ridicule  the  Americans 
when  they  tirst  revolted." 

CoNKEY,  (Mrs.  M.)     Cottage  Musings  ;  or.  Select  Pieces  in  Prose  and 
Verse.     12°,  pp.  184.     New  York,  1835. 

—  Same.      12°,  pp.  x,  184.     New  York,  1835. 

Connolly,  (C.  C.)     Tones  on  the  Harp.     12°,  pp.  199.     AVasliington, 

1861. 
Conrad,  (R.  T.) 

Robert  T.  Conrad  was  born  in  1808  at  Philadelphia,  and  was  distinguished  as  an 
orator  and  a  dramatic  writer.    He  died  in  1858. 

—  Aylmere;  or,  the  Bondman  of  Kent,  etc.     12°,  pp.  329.     Phihidel- 

phia,  1852. 
Continuation,  A,  of  Hudibras.     In  two   Cantos.     (Anon.)     1G°,  pp. 
(4)  and  76.     London,  1773. 

In  the  same  volume,  and  on  paper  having  the  same  water-mark  as  the  printed  portion 
of  it,  is  a  manuscript  continuation,  believed.to  be  in  the  hand-writing  of  the  author  of  the 
first  two  Cantos,  containing 

Canto  the  Third.    Never  printed,    pp.  77-108. 

Canto  the  Fourth.    [Unfinished.]    pp.  (H). 


64  HARKIS    COLLECTION. 

♦ 
Convention,  General,  An  Epistle  to  the.      (By  a  Country  Bard. 

Anon.)     12°,  pp.  12.     No  place.     October,  1847. 
Conway,  (H.  J.) 

Hirnm  J.  Conway  was  born  in  England  in  ISOO,  and  died  at  Philadelpliia,  April  12, 
1860. 

—  Hiram  Hireout.      12°,  pp.  21.     New  York,  no  date. 

—  Our  Jemimy.     A  Farce.      12°,  pp.25.      New  York,  no  date. 

CoNWELL,  (C.C.)  The  Hymns  of  Homer,  etc.  12°,  pp.  122.  Phila- 
delphia, 1830. 

Cook's  Dream;  or.  What  is  Poverty?  (Anon.)  18°,  pp.  12.  Bos- 
ton, 1834. 

Cook,  (E.)  The  Sot-Weed  Factor;  or,  A  Voyage  to  Maryland.  A 
Satyr :  In  which  is  describ'd  The  Laws,  Government,  Courts  and 
Constitutions  of  the  Country,  and  also  the  Buildings,  Feasts,  Frolics, 
Entertainments  and  Drunken  Humours  of  the  Inhabitants  of  that 
Part  of  America.  In  Burlesque  verse,  by  Eben  Cook,  Gent.  Lon- 
don :  Printed  and  sold  by  Dr.  Bragg,  at  the  Raven  in  Paternoster- 
Roiu,  1708.      (Price,  Gs.) 

The  above  is  the  full  title  of  the  original,  of  which  the  copy  in  "  The  Harris  Collec- 
tion" is  a  reprint,  forming  No.  II.  of  Shea's  Early  Southern  Tracts,  with  an  introduction 
by  Brantz  Mayer.  The  volume  is  a  4°,  pp.  vi,  26.  No  place,  no  date.  Sot-Weed  means 
the  sot  making  or  inebriating  weed ;  a  name  for  tobacco  used  at  that  time.  A  Sot-Weed 
Factor  was  a  tobacco  agent  or  supercargo. 

Mayer  says  :  "We  may,  I  imagine,  very  reasonably  suppose  '  Eben  Cook  '  to  have  been 
a  London  '  Gent,'  rather  decayed  by  fast  living,  sent  abroad  to  see  the  world  and  be  tamed 
by  it,  who  very  soon  discovered  that  Lord  Baltimore's  Colony  was  not  the  Court  of  her 
Majesty  Queen  Anne,  or  its  taverns  frequented  by  Addison  and  the  wits,  and  whose  dis- 
gust  became  supreme  when  he  was  '  finished  '  on  the  *  Eastern  Shore  '  by 

'A  pious,  conscientious  Rogue,' 

who,  taking  advantage  of  his  Incapacity  for  trade,  cheated  him  out  of  his  cargo,  and  sent 
him  home  without  a  leaf  of  the  coveted  'Sot-Weed.'"  This  poem  is,  very  likely,  the 
result  of  that  homeward  voyage.  With  proper  allowance  for  breadth  and  burlesque, 
angry  exaggeration  and  the  discomforts  of  such  a  "  Gentleman  "  as  we  may  fancy  Master 
Cook  to  have  been,  it  is  well  worth  preservation  as  history,  if  not  photographing  the  man- 
ners and  customs  of  the  ruder  classes  in  a  British  Province  a  century  and  a  half  ago. 
The  original  tract  Is  very  rare. 

Cook,  (H.  C.)     Musings  and  Meditations.     12°,  pp.   217.     Providence, 

1852. 
Cook,  (W.)     Poems.     12°.     Salem,  1852. 

—  Same.      1859. 

—  Sunbeam  Through  Pagan  Clouds.     18°,  pp.  15.     Salem,  1853. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  65 

Cooke,  (P.  P.) 

Philip  Pendleton  Cooke  was  born  at  Martinsburg,  Berkeley  county,  Va.,  October  26, 
1816,  graduated  at  Princeton,  in  1835,  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  and  married  before  reach- 
ing  his  majority.  Besides  his  political  productions,  he  wrote  several  tales  for  the  "  South- 
ern  Literary  Messenger."    He  died  January  20,  1850. 

—  Froissart  Ballads,  etc.     12°,  pp.  xi,  216.     Philadelphia,  1847. 

COOLEY,   (J.  E.) 

Born  in  Massachusetts  in  1802,  published  in  1839    "  The  American  in  Egypt." 

—  Extracts  from  Humbugiana.     12°,  pp.  24.     Gotham,  1847. 

CoOLiDGE,  (G.)      Anniver.«ary  Poems.     8°,  pp.  16.     Boston,  1844. 

CooMER,   (G.  H.)      Miscellaneous  Poems.       12°,  pp.  viii,  168.     Boston, 
1851. 

Cooper,  (W.)     Original  Sacred  Music,     pp.  12.     Boston,  no  date. 

COPCUTT,  (F.)      Edith.     A  Play.     12°,  pp.  83.     New  York,  1857(  ?). 

COPELAND,  (W.  P.)      Stanlico  Africanus.     Stanley's  Trip  from  Zanzibar 
to  Ujiji.      18°,  pp.  16.     No  place,  no  date. 

COPPEE,  (H.,  LL.  D.) 

Henry  Coppde  was  born  at  Savannah,  Ga.,  October  13,  1821,  was  for  a  time  a  student 
at  Yale,  and  graduated  at  West  Point  in  1845.  For  several  years  he  served  in  the  army, 
was  in  the  Mexican  war,  was  an  instructor  in  West  Point  from  1848  to  1855,  resigned  the 
latter  year,  was  professor  of  English. literature  in  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  from 
1855  to  1866,  president  of  the  Lehigh  University  from  1866  to  1875,  when  he  was  appointed 
professor  of  History  in  that  institution. 

—  A  Gallery  of  Famous  English  and  American  Poets,  with  an  Introduc- 

tory Essay  by  Henry  Coppee.     4°,  pp.  xxxii,  448.     Philadelphia, 
1873. 

Illustrated  with  nearly  one  hundred  and  fifty  steel  engravings,  executed  in  the  finest 
style  of  the  art,  mostly  from  original  designs  by  distinguished  artists.  An  elegant  volume, 
neatly  bound  with  gilt  edges. 

This  volume  is  in  the  special  Anthony  part  of  the  collection,  and  is  one  of  the  finest  in 
the  entire  collection  in  its  general  "  make-up." 

CoRDORA.    A  Poetical  Romance.    (ByF.  S.M.    Anon.    S.  M.  Fitton  [?]). 
12°,  pp.  86.     St.  Louis,  1849. 

Cordova,  (R.  J.  de) 

A  New  Y'ork  banker. 

—  The  Prince's  Visit.      Illustrated.     8°,  pp.  34.     New  York,  1861. 


66  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

CoKNELL,  (J.  F.  D.)  Arthur  and  Constance  ;  or,  The  Power  of  Love. 
12°,  pp.  24.     New  York,  1858. 

Couch,  (W.)     Hymns.     1G°,  pp.  04.     Andover,  N.  H.,  1819. 

Courage.  The  Sweepers.  A  Satyr.  (By  A.  and  B.  Mechanics.)  12°, 
pp.  8.     No  phice,  1774. 

Cox.  (C.  C.)     Female  Education.     8°,  pp.   44.     Frederick,  Md.,  1858. 

Cox,  (J.)  Eewards  and  Punishments,  etc.  12°,  pp.  20.  Philadelphia, 
1795. 

Cox[e],  (A.  C.)      ■  ' 

Arthur  Cleaveland  Coxe,  son  of  Rev.  Dr.  S.  H.  Cox,  was  born  at  Mendham,  N.  J., 

May  10,  1818,  graduated  at  the  University  of  the  city  of  New  York  in  1838,  studied  theology 
in  the  General  Theological  Seminary,  New  York,  and  was  ordained  Deacon  in  the  Protest- 
ant Episcopal  Church,  July,  1841.  After  filling  the  office  of  Rector  in  several  churches,  he 
was  chosen  Bishop  of  Western  New  York  in  1865.  He  occupies  a  distinguished  place 
among  the  religious  poets  of  the  country. 

—  Advent.     A  Mystery.      12°,  pp.  132.     New  York,  1837. 

—  Christian  Ballads.     32°.     Oxford,  1848. 

—  A  New  Edition.      18°,  pp.  254.     Oxford,  1853. 

—  Same.     5th  Edition.     Philadelphia,   1855. 

—  Same.      15th  Edition.     18°,  pp.  227.     Philadelphia,  no  date. 

Coxe,  (S.  H.,  Jr.)-  Tlie  Progress  of  the  Clmrch.  Pronomiced  before 
the  Euglossian  Society  of  Geneva  College,  August  1,  1843.  12°, 
pp.  21.     Geneva,  1843. 

Coxe,  (L.  de  T.)  Yacht  Seadrift.  Her  Log.  Cruise  of  August,  1867. 
12°,  pp.  18.     No  place,  no  date. 

Crafts,  (W.) 

William  Crafts  was  born  in  Charleston,  S.C.,  January  24,  1787,  graduated  at  Harvard 
in  1805,  and  was  an  eminent  lawyer  in  his  native  city.  For  some  time  he  was  editor  of 
the  Charleston  Conrier.    He  died  at  Lebanon  Springs,  N.  Y.,  September  23,  1826. 

—  Sullivan's  Island.     8°,  pp.  100.     Charleston,  1820. 

—  The  Romance  of  the  Sea  Serpent.      12°,  pp.  172.     Cambridge,  1849. 

Two  or  three  songs  in  this  volume. 

Craigengelt,  (A.,  ijseud.)  Rhodoshake's  Visit  from  the  Moon.  8°, 
pp.  G3.     New  York,  1832. 

Bound  in  the  same  volume  are  R.  H.  Stoddard's  "  Footprints,"  and  Street's  "  Our 
State." 


a:sIerican  poetry.  67 

Ckanch,  (C.  p.) 

Christopher  Pease  Cranch  was  born  at  Alexandria,  D.  C,  March  8,  1813,  and  was  the 
son  of  Judge  William  Cranch.  Hegraduated  at  Columbian  College,  Washington,  D.  C,  in 
1831,  and  studied  theology  at  Cambridge.  He  became  well  known  as  a  landscape  painter. 
His  poems  have  been  warmly  commended. 

—  Poems.      12°,  pp.  116.     Philadelphia,   1844. 

—  Satan:     Libretto.     Sq.  18%  pp.  ,36.     Boston,  1874. 

Crapo,  (AV.  W.)  Poem.  Yale.  June  16,  1852.  8°,  pp.  47,  (with 
Oration  by  H.  Sprague.)     New  Haven,  1852. 

Crawley,  (Eliza).     Poems.     12°,  pp.  192.     Charleston,  1826. 

Cream  of  Tartar.      (Anon.)     Lg.  8°,  pp.  32.     New  York,  1871. 

Creation,  The  ;  or,  A  Morning  Walk  avith  Anna.  (Anon.)  18°,  pp. 
52.     Philadelphia,  1843. 

Cressy,  (N.)  The  Battle  and  Monument  of  Bunker  Hill  compared  with 
the  Agonies  and  Triumphs  of  the  Cross.  12°,  pp.  24.  Portland, 
no  date. 

Crider,  (H.  M.)     Pedagogics.     12°,  pp.  87.     York.  Pa.,  1866. 

Crihfield,  (a.)  The  Universaliad  ;  or.  Confession  of  Universalism,  etc. 
12°,  pp.  X,  192.     Cincinnati,  1849. 

Crisfield,  (Mrs.  C.  L.)  A  Wayside  Flower,  etc,  12°,  pp.  92.  Balti- 
more, 1875. 

Crockett,  Davy  ;  or,  The  Nimrod  of  the  West.  The  Only  Cure  for 
Hard  Times.      (Anon.)      12°,  pp.  iv,  46.     New  York,  1837. 

Croke,  (J.  G.)      Lyrics  of  the  Law.     Sq.  18°,  pp.  312.     San  Francisco, 

1884. 
Crosby,  (Frances  J.)     Libretto  of  the  FloAver  Queen.       12°,  pp.    15. 

New  York,  1852. 

—  The  Blind  Girl,  etc.      12°,  pp.  157.     New  York,  1844. 

—  Monterey,  etc.      12°,  pp.  203.     New  York,  1851. 

Croswell,  (W.,  D.  D.) 

William  Croswell  was  born  at  Hudson,  N.  Y.,  November  7, 1804,  and  graduated  at  Yale 
in  1822.  Among  his  classmates  were  Rev.  Drs.  Edward  Beecher,  H.  N.  Brinsmade,  T. 
Stillman,  Jolin  Todd  and  T.  E.  Vermilye,  Hon.  Osmyn  Baker,  M.  C,  I'rofessors  G.  T. 
Bowen,  E.  H.  Leffingwell  and  I.  H.  Townsand,  and  Harvey  P.  Peet,  LL.  D.  He  studied 
theology  at  the  General  Theological  .Seminary,  New  York,  was  ordained  Deacon  in  the 

12 


Q8  HAERIS    COLLECTION. 

Croswell,  (W.,  D.  D.) —  Continued. 

rrotestant  Episcopal  Cliurch  by  Bishop  Browiu'Il,  and  was  Kector  of  Christ  Church,  Bos- 
ton, 1829-40,  of  St.  Peter's  Church,  Auburn,  N.  Y.,  1840-44,  and  of  the  Church  of  the 
Advent,  Boston,  1844,  to  his  death,  November  9,  1851. 

—  Poems.     16°,  pp.  xlviii,  284,     Boston,  1867. 
Crown,  (J.) 

John  Crown,  or  Crowne,  tlie  son  of  an  Independent  minister,  was  born  in  Nova  Scotia 
not  far  from  the  middle  of  the  seventeenth  century.  To  escape  from  the  gloomy  restraints 
of  the  place  of  his  nativity,  he  went  to  England,  and  for  a  time  was  a  Gentleman  Usher  in 
the  family  of  an  old  Independent  lady.  Weary  and  disgusted  with  this  situation  he  turned 
his  attention  to  writing,  and  soon  became  a  favorite  at  the  Court  of  Charles  II.  Court 
favor,  however,  proved  precarious,  and  he  petitioned  the  King  to  put  him  into  a  position 
where  he  could  be  reasonably  assured  of  a  permanent  support.  Charles  made  it  a  con- 
dition of  granting  his  request  that  he  should  write  a  Comedy.  "  Sir  Courtly  Nice  "  was  the 
result ;  but  just  before  it  was  put  upon  the  stage  Charles  died,  and  Crowne  was  left  unpro- 
vided for.  With  regard  to  this  Comedy,  Dennis,  in  his  "Original  Letters,"  London,  1721, 
says  :  •'  Tho'  I  have  more  than  twenty  times  read  over  this  charming  comedy,  yet  I  have 
always  read  it,  not  only  with  delight,  but  rapture.  And  'tis  my  opinion  that  the  greatest 
Comick  Poet  that  ever  lived  in  any  age  might  have  been  proud  to  have  been  the  author  of 
it."  Crowne  died  about  the  year  1703.  He  was  the  author  of  seventeen  tragedies  and 
comedies.  His  dramatic  works  were  collected  and  collated  by  W.  E.  Burton,  in  Phila- 
delphia, in  1848,  the  original  editions  being  bound  in  four  volumes.  The  following  are  the 
plays : 

VOL.  L 

1.  Juliana;  or,  The  Princess  of  Poland.    London,  1671. 

2.  History  of  Charles  the  Eighth  of  France.    London,  lfi92.     Or,  The  Invasion  of 

Naples  by  the  French.    London,  1672. 

3.  The  Country  Wit.    A  Comedy.    London,  1675. 

4.  Calisto;  or,  The  Chaste  Nymph.    London,  1675. 

Vol.  II. 

1.  Andromache.    A  Tragedy.    Loudon,  1675. 

2.  The  Destruction  of  Jerusalem.    In  Two  Parts.    London,  1677. 

3.  City  Politiques.    A  Comedy.    1083. 

A'OL.  III. 

1.  The  Ambitious  Statesman.    London,  1079. 

2.  The  Miseries  of  Civil  War.    A  Tragedy.    London,  1680, 

3.  The  same.    Part  II.    London,  1681. 

4.  Thyestes.    A  Tragedy.    London,  1081. 

5.  Sir  Courtly  Nice;  or,  It  Cannot  Be.    London,  1685. 

Vol.  IV. 

1.  Darius.    A  Tragedy.    London,  1688. 

2.  The  English  Frier;  or.  The  Town  Sparks.    London,  ie9(). 

3.  Regulus.    A  Tragedy.    London,  1694. 

4.  Married  Beau.    London,  1694. 

5.  Caligula.    A  Tragedy.    London,  1698. 

Mr.  Harris  took  much  interest  in  collecting  the  works  of  John  Crowne.  Several  writ- 
ten pages  of  criticisms  on  his  plays  are  preserved  in  the  collection.  It  is  an  interesting 
circumstance  that  the  four  volumes  referred  to  reached  Providence  on  or  about  the  day  of 
the  death  of  Mr.  H. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  69 

Crown,  (J.)  —  Continued. 

—  Doeneids  ;  or,  The  Noble  Labors  of  the  Great  Dean  of  Notre-Dame 

in  Paris,  etc.     8°,  pp.  32.     London,  1692. 

—  History  of  Charles  the  Eighth,  etc.     8°,  pp.  79.     London,  1692. 

—  Dramatists  of  the    Restoration.      4  vols.      8°,  pp.  xviii,  342,  <396, 

457,  426.     Edinburgh  and  London,   1873. 
The  four  volumes  of  the  dramatic  writings  of  Crowne  make  up  only  a  part  of  the  series. 

—  Henry  the  Sixth ;  or,  The  Murder  of  the  Duke  of  Glocester.       8°, 

pp.  70.     London,  1681. 

—  Sir   Courtly  Nice;  or,   It   Cannot  Be.     A  Comedy.       18°,   pp.  81. 

London,  1731. 

—  The  Married  Beau.     8°,  pp.  66.     London,  1694. 

—  The  Old  English  Drama.     4  vols.  8°.     London,   1671-98. 

—  Thyestes.     A  Tragedy.     8°,  pp.  56.     London. 

Cruickshaxks,  (J.,  Jr.,  j).se??f?.)  A  Bouquet  of  Flowers,  etc.  12°.  pp. 
38.     New  York  and  London,  1851. 

Crummell,  (A.)  The  Man:  Tlie  Hero:  The  Christian:  Thomas 
Clarkson.     8°,  pp.  44.     New  York,  1847. 

Gumming,  (J.  D.)  Thanksgiving  Eve.  12°,  pp.  48.  Greenfield  and 
Mirick,  1847. 

"  Cupid  Abroad,"  Arrested.  (Anon.)  Jupiter  Tonans  Donnerhagel, 
{i:iseucl.)     8°,  pp.  20.     Gettysburg,  1846, 

Cure  for  the  Spleen,  A  ;  or.  Amusement  for  a  Winter's  Evening  ; 
being  the  substance  of  a  conversation  on  the  times,  over  a  friendly 
tankard  and  pipe,  between  Sharp,  a  country  parson  ;  Bumper,  a 
country  justice  ;  Fillpot,  an  innkeeper  ;  Graveairs,  a  deacon  ;  Trim, 
a  barber;  Brim,  a  Quaker;  Putt',  a  late  Representative.  Taken 
in   shorthand  by  Roger  de  Coverly.     8°,  pp.  32.     America,  1775. 

CuRRiE,  (E.  A.)     Masonry.     8°,  pp.  25.     Baltimore,  1851. 
CuRRiE,  (Helen.)     Poems.     18°,  pp.  150.     Philadelphia,  1818. 
Curtis,  (H.  P.)     Uncle  Robert,  etc.     12°,  pp.  34.     Boston,  no  date. 
Curtis,  (J.  AY.)     Poems.     12°,  i)p.  168.     New  York,  1846. 
Gushing,  (E.  J.)     Business  Lyrics,  by  the  best  Poets  (dead  and  alive). 
Compiled  by  E.  J.  C.     12°.     Providence,  1881. 


70  IIAERIS    COLLECTION. 

CusiiiXG,  (E.  J.)  —  Continued. 

Tliese  poems  by  E.  J.  Gushing  are  humorous  imitations  of  English  and  American 
poets.    The  following  is  the  first  verse  of  a  poem  entitled  "  Eighteen  per  Cent.    By  H.  W. 

Longfellow  " : 

"  The  hour  of  three  was  well-nigh  past 
When  up  a  broker's  staircase  fast, 
A  youth,  wlio  held  in  hands  like  ice, 
Some  paper,  with  this  strange  device. 

Eighteen  per  cent."" 
Among  the  poets  imitated  are  Southey,  Goldsmith,  Pope,  Moore,  Scott,  Longfellow, 
Holmes  and  Poe. 

Cl-stis,  (G.  W.  p.)  . 

George  Washington  Parke  Custis  was  born  in  Maryland  in  1781,  and  was  the  adopted 
son  of  Gen.  Washington.    He  died  in  1857. 

—  Pocahontas.  A  National  Drama.     12°,  pp.  47.     Philadelphia,  1830. 
Cutler,  (E.  J.)  Liberty  and  Law.     18°,  pp.  11.     Boston,  1862. 
CuTTS,  (Mary.)  The  Autobiography  of  a  Clock.     12°,  pp.  247.     Bos- 
ton, 1852. 

Cutter,  (B.  H.)     Eulogy  on  General  Scott,  etc.     16°,  pp.  8.    Noplace, 
1861. 

—  Poetical   Lecture    Suggested  After  Seeing  the  Model  of  Solomon's 

Temple.     18°,  pp.  20.     Flushing,  1860. 

—  The  New  England  Kitchen.     18°,  pp.  8.     No  place,  1864. 

Cutter,  (G.  W.) 

George  Washington  Cutter  was  born  in  Kentucky,  and  was  captain  of  volunteers  in 
the  Mexican  war.    One  of  liis  best  known  poems  is  "  The  Song  of  Steam." 

—  Buena  Vista,  etc.      12°,  pp.  168.     Cincinnati,  1848. 

—  Poems.    Additional  and  Patriotic.     8°,  pp.  279.     Philadelphia,  1857. 

—  Poems  and  Fugitive  Pieces.      12°,  pp.   273.     Cincinnati,  1857. 
Cuyahoga  County,  The  Bench  and  Bar  of.     (Title-page  gone.)     12°, 

pp.  42. 
Cynick,  The.     By  Growler  Gruff,  Esq.,  aided  by  a  Confederacy  of  Let- 
tered Dogs.     16°,  pp.  iv,  210.     Philadelphia,  1812. 

Dabney,  (R.) 

Richard  Dabney  was  born  in  the  county  of  Louisa,  Va.,  not  far  from  1787.  The  name 
is  the  same  with  that  of  the  celebrated  author  of  "  The  History  of  the  Reformation," 
D'Aubigne.  After  completing  his  early  education  he  was  for  a  time  an  assistant  teacher 
in  a  school  in  Richmond.  Subsequently  he  returned  to  his  native  place,  where  he  spent 
the  rest  of  his  life.  It  is  painful  to  add  that  that  he  became  an  opium-eater  and  a  lover 
of  ardent  spirits,  dying  prematurely  in  November,  1825. 


AMERICAX    POETRY.  71 

Dabney,  (R.)  —  Continued. 

—  Poems    Original    and    Translated.      •2d    Edition.     18°,  pp.   iv,    172. 

Philadelphia,  1815.  f 

Dade  Asylum,  The  ;  or,  Mental  Moxumext  to  Major  Dade  and  those 

WHO  HAVE  FALLEN  IN  THE  FLORIDA  WaR.        (Anon.)      18°,  pp.  40. 

Charleston,  1839. 
Dadmun,  (J.  ^\.) 

A  well-known  minister  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 

—  "  Revival  Melodies."     8°,  pp.  — .     Boston,  1858. 

Dagnall,  (J.  M.)  Daisy  Swain,  the  Flower  of  Shenandoali.  A  Tale 
of  the  Rebellion.  lUnstrated.  16°,  pp.  vi,  167.  Brooklyn,  N.Y., 
1865. 

Dagnall,  (J.  W.)  The  Mexican;  or,  Love  and  Land.  16°,  pp.  228. 
New  York,  1868. 

Founded  on  the  invasion  of  Maximilian. 

Daily,  (H.  C.)  Guide  to  the  Great  Falls  of  the  Potomac.  Sq.  18°, 
pp.  18.     Washington,  1884. 

Dailey,  (AV.  B.)  Saratoga.  A  Dramatic  Historical  Romance.  12°, 
pp.  96.     Corning,  N.  Y.,  1848. 

Dake,  (O.  C.)      Midland  Poems.      12°,  pp.   284.     Lincoln,  Neb.,  1884. 

Dakota  Language,  Hymns  in.  Edited  by  S.  R.  Riggs  and  .J.  P.  Wil- 
liamson.     18°,  pp.  162.     New  York,  no  date. 

Dale,  (Azania.)     Comitry  Verses.     12°,  pp.  87.     Washington,  1865. 

Dana,  (R.  H.) 

Richard  Henry  Dana,  a  descendant  of  Anne  Bradstreet,  was  born  at  Cambridge,  Mass., 
November  15,  1787,  graduated  at  Harvard  College  in  1808,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1811, 
was  editor  of  the  "North  American  Review,"  1818-19.  Ilis  first  published  poem  was 
"  The  Dying  Raven,"  which  appeared  in  the  "  New  Y'ork  Review,"  then  edited  by  W.  C. 
Bryant,  in  1821.  "  The  Buccaneer,"  his  most  celebrated  production,  appeared  in  1827. 
He  ranks  very  high  among  American  poets.    His  death  occurred  February  2,  1879. 

—  Poem  at  Andover,  September  29,  1829.     8°,  pp.  15.     Boston,  1829. 

—  Poems.      18°,  pp.  xiii,  113.     Boston,  1827. 

—  The  Buccaneer,  etc.     32°,  pp.  xviii,  156.     London,  1844. 

—  Same.     London,  1850. 
Danforth,  (J.) 

John  Danforth  was  born  in  Roxbury,  Mass.,  November  8, 1000,  graduated  at  Harv.ird 
in  1077,  ordained  pastor  of  the  church  in  Dorchester,  Mass.,  June  28,  1082,  and  died  May 


72  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

Daxforth,  (J.)  —  Continued. 

26,  1730,  being  the  last  minister  of  the  "  First  Cliurch  "  in  Dorchester  wlio  died  in  office 
before  Njithjiniel  Ilall,  D*D.,  who  died  in  1875. 

In  liis  "  Anuivls,"  Bhike  says  :  "  He  was  sd  to  be  a  man  of  great  Learning,  he  under- 
stood ye  Matliematics  beyond  most  men  of  liis  Function.  He  was  exceedingly  Charitable, 
&  of  a  very  peacefull  temper.  He  took  much  pains  to  Eternize  ye  names  of  many  of  yo 
good  Christians  of  liis  own  Flock ;  And  yet  y«  World  is  so  ungratefuU,  that  he  has  not  a 
Line  Written  to  preserve  his  Memory.  No,  not  so  much  as  upon  his  Tomb ;  he  being 
buried  in  Lt.  Gov.  Stoughton's  Tomb,  that  was  covered  with  writing  before." 

—  Kneeling  to  God,  at  Parting  with  Friends  ;  or,  the  Fraternal  Interces- 
sory Cry  of  Faith  and  Love.  Setting  Forth  and  Recommending 
the  Primitive  Mode  of  taking  Leave,  etc.  Sm.  8°,  pp.  63. 
Annexed  to  this  discom-se  is  a  Poem  to  the  Memory  of  Mrs. 
Anne  Eliot,  pp.  64-65.  Also  one  to  the  Memory  of  Mr.  John 
Eliot,  "the  Apostle  to  the  Indians,"  pp.  66-72.     Boston,  1697. 

This  little  volume,  purchased  at  the  Brinley  sale  for  $15.00,  is  bound  in  Bedford's  most 
attractive  style.  It  finds  a  place  in  "The  Harris  Collection  "  because  of  the  two  poems 
referred  to.  After  consulting  several  "  Collections  "  of  American  Poetry  without  finding 
any  reference  to  these  poems,  we  conclude  that  they  are  very  rare.  If  we  are  to  believe 
the  worthy  Dorchester  pastor,  Mrs.  Eliot  was  a  most  remarkable  person,  justly  entitled  to 
his  loftiest  panegyric : 

"  AVith  all  the  World  America  shall  Yye, 
For  to  produce  thy  Peer :  Now  cast  thine  Eye 

All  round  about  that  Spacious  Room 
None  Shalt  thou  see 
Of  Best  Women 
Much  more  Triumjiliant  tlian 
Thy  self  to  be. 
"  Haile !  Thou  Sagacious  &  Advent'rous  Soul ! 
Haile,  Amazon !  Created  to  Controll 

Weak  Nature's  Foes,  &  t'  take  her  part. 
"  The  King  of  Terrours.    Thou  'till  the  Com- 
Irrevocable  came  to  stay  thy  Hand,      (maud 
Didst  oft  Repel,  by  thy  Choice  Art  : 
By  High  Decree, 
Long  didst  thou  stand 
An  Atlas,  in  Heav'n's  Hand 
To  th'  World  to  be." 

In  strains  equally  lofty  does  he  eulogize  the  husband  of  Mistress  Eliot,  who  died  a 
little  more  than  three  years  after  the  death  of  this,  his  peerless  consort.  Judged  by  our 
modern  standards,  what  shall  be  said  of  the  poetry  of  this  remarkable  production?  We 
select  the  following  extracts  : 

"  SHall  Eliot  slip  away?  &  not  his  Sons 

Spy  &  Regret  it,  with  Athletick  Groans? 

None  Cry  Alarm,  when  Horse  &  Chariots  taken? 

None  Feel,  when  Israel's  weal's  Foundation's  shaken? 

Lately,  stately  Stone  pluckt  out;  none  'spy  it? 

Nor  run  to  Stop  the  woful  Breach  made  by  it?" 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  73 

Danforth,  (J.)  —  Continued. 

How  impossible  it  is  to  describe  the  dreadful  calamity  which  has  taken  place  in  the 
death  of  Eliot  is  set  forth  in  the  following  terras  : 

"  Since  Babel's  Trait'rous  Tower  was  Thunder- 
By  Heav'ns  Inraged  Ire,  &  fell,  &  split    S"^** 
Can  tell  the  wounds,  which  this  one  too  alone 
Hath  more  than  Scarr'd  the  World  with;  next  th'  Ex 
At  first/ro»i  Paradise,  &  th'  necct  Convidsion       (pulsion 
In  Grandsire  Jupheth's  Time,  no  Storm  before, 
The  Universal  World  e're  delug'd  more." 

Eliot,  as  scholar,  translator,  eloquent  divine,  if  we  take  the  decision  of  the  poet,  never 
had  a  peer : 

"  One  Testament  Seventy  Tnti-epreters 
Translate  to  Greek,  Antiquity  avers; 
Both  Testavienis,  yet  Eliot  alone 
Converts  in  the  Indian  tongue  &  Tone; 
Abel,  tho'  dead,  yet  speaks,  in  one  Tongue  more; 
Isay's,  Apollo's  Eloquence,  before, 
Ne're  Rode  in  such  a  chariot :  Like  Phynian 
(Tho'  skill'd  in  Pulse)  would  scarce  tell  the 

Condition 
Of  his  own  Gospe  :  Paul,  with  his  much  Learning, 
Would  here  be  Posed  : 

For  'though  to  many  Regions  He  did  pass, 
Yet  no  West-Indian  Antiquary  was  " 

The  above  must  suffice  as  furnishing  an  illustration  of  this  singular  production  of 
some  340  lines. 

Daniel,  (C.  T.)     William  ami  Annie  ;    or,  A   Tale  of  Love   and  War, 

etc.     18°,  pp.  112.     Guelph,  18G4. 

Daniels,  (Mrs.  Eunice  T.) 

Miss  Eunice  K.  True  was  born  at  Plainfield,  X.  H.,  November  14,  1S06,  and  was  mar- 
ried in  1830  to  William  H.  Daniels.    She  died  June  10,  1841. 

—  Poems.      12%  pp.  184.     New  York,  1843. 

Dann,  (A.)  Glimpses  of  Light  and  Shade.  Read  before  the  Euglossian 
Society,  Geneva  College,  August  3,  1842.  8°,  Geneva,  N.  Y., 
1842. 

DANNELffr,  (Mrs.)  Destruction  of  the  City  of  Columbia,  S.  C.  12°, 
pp.  24.     Charleston,  1866. 

Danvers,  Mass.,  Centennial  Celebration,  June  16,  1852.  Poem  by 
Andrew  Nichols,  pp.  37,  etc.  8°,  whole  number  pp.  208.  Bos- 
ton, 1852. 

D'Arcy,  (U.  D.)  The  Black  Vampyre  ;  A  Legend  of  St.  Domingo. 
18°,  pp.  72.     New  York,  1819. 


74  HARKIS    COLLECTION". 

D'Arusmont  (Fanny  Wright)  Altorf. 

Born  in  England  in  1795.  About  the  year  1830  slie  made  lierself  notorious  by  the  pub. 
lication  of  doctrines  which,  it  is  said,  she  subsetjuently  repudiated.  She  died  in  Cincin- 
nati in  1852. 

—  A  Tragedy.     8°.     London,  1822. 

Daughters  of  Eve.      (Anon.)      12°,  pp.  91.     Schenectady,  1829. 
David  and  Uriah.     (Anon.)     12°,  pp.  iv,  34.     Philadelphia,  1835. 
David,    (E.)     OfFers  of    Christ    No    Gospel    Preaching.      18°,  pp.    20. 

Philadelphia,  1770. 
Davidson,  (L.  M.) 

Lucretia  M.  Davidson  was  born  at  Plattsburg,  N.  Y.,  September  27,1808;  began  to 
write  poetry  when  slie  was  a  cliild,  her  earliest  published  poem  having  been  written  at 
the  age  of  eleven.  She  displayed  remarkable  precocity  and  Intellectual  brilliancy,  and  at 
the  time  of  her  death,  before  she  was  seventeen  years  of  age,  she  left  no  less  than  278 
pieces,  140  having  been  destroyed  previous  to  that  event.    She  died  August  27,  1825. 

—  Amir  Khan.     pp.  174.     New  York,  1829. 

—  Biography  and   Poetical  Remains,  by  Washington  Irving.      12°,  pp. 

359.     Philadelphia,  1841. 

—  Poetical  Remains.      12°,  pp.  312.     Philadelphia,  1841. 

—  Same.     With    a    Biography    by    Miss    SedgAvick.     A    new    Edition 

revised.       12°,  pp.   248.     New  York,  1850. 

—  Poems.     Illustrated  by  Darley.      12°,  pp.  270.     New  York,  1871. 
Davidson,  (M.  M.) 

31argaret  M.  Davidson,  a  sister  of  Lucretia,  born  in  1823.  Her  poetry  attracted  the 
attention  of  AVashington  Irving,  who  wrote  a  memoir  of  her.  She  died  in  1838,  before 
she  was  16  years  of  age. 

—  Poetical  Remains.      12°,  pp.  248.     Boston,  1854. 

Davidson,    (R.)      Geography  Epitomized.     12°,   pp.    GO.     Morristown, 
1803. 

Davis,  (Martha  Ann.)     Poems  of  Laura.      18°,  pp.  lOG.     Petersburg, 
Va.,  1818.  *■ 

Davis,  (R.  B.) 

Richard  Brigham  Davis  was  born  in  the  city  of  New  York,  August  21,  1771,  and  was 
educated  at  Columbia  College.  His  life  was  devoted  chiefly  to  literary  pursuits.  In  man- 
ners and  address  he  is  said  to  have  resembled  Oliver  Goldsmith.  "  His  simplicity  was 
most  remarkable  in  one  who  had  been  born  and  brought  up  in  the  midst  of  a  crowd  of  his 
fellow-men."    Hf  died  in  179'J. 

—  Poems.      12°,  pp.  xxxi,  154.      New  York,  1807. 


AMEEICAN    POETRY.  75 

Davalos,  (Isabel.)     The  Maid  of  Seville.     18°,  pp.  7,  with   pp.  90  of 
Notes.      (Anon.)     Glens  Falls,  N.  Y.,  1832. 

Dawes,  (R.) 

Rufus  Dawes  was  born  at  Boston,  January  26,  1803,  studied  at  Harvard,  but  did  not 
receive  his  degree,  being  charged  with  a  violation  of  the  college  laws,  of  which  it  was  sub. 
sequently  proved  that  he  was  not  guilty.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  but  did  not  prac- 
tice, preferring  literature  to  law.    He  died  November  30,  1859. 

—  Athenia  of   Damascus.      A  Tragedy.     12°,  pp.   118.     New   York, 

1839. 

—  The  Valley  of  the  Nashaway,  etc.      18°,  pp.  96.     Boston,  1830. 

Dawes,  (T.) 

Thomas  Dawes  was  born  at  Boston  in  1757,  graduated  at  Harvard  in  1777,  became  a 
lawyer,  was  appointed  Judge  of  the  Supreme  Court  in  1792,  resigned  in  1802,  then  was 
made  Judge  of  Probate  for  the  county  of  Suffolk,  and  Judge  of  the  Municipal  Court  in 
Boston.    He  retained  the  former  office  till  his  death  in  July,  1825. 

The  Law  Given  at  Sinai.     The  name  of  the  author  does  not  appear 

on  the  title-page.  (By  a  Y^oung  Gentleman.)  The  Poem  is  dedi- 
cated to  President  Langdon  of  Harvard  College.  4°,  pp.  7.  Bos- 
ton, 1777. 

Day  Dreams.     By  a  Butterfly.     In  Nine  Parts.     12°,  pp.  156.     King- 
ston, C.  \Y.,  1854. 

Day,  (H.  W.)     Revival  Hymns.     18°,  pp.  72.     Boston,  1842. 

Day,  (S.  M.)     Pencillings  of  Light  and  Shade.     12°,  pp.  70.     Sdiouec- 
tady,   1850. 

Deane,   (E.)     a  Poetical    Oration.     Pronounced  at   Tiverton,  July  4, 
1804.     12°,  pp.  23.     Dedham,  1804. 

Deane,  (S.,  D.  D.) 

Samuel  Deane  was  born  at  Norton,  Mass.,  not  far  from  1741,  graduated  a^  Harvard 
in  1760,  settled  as  colleague  of  Rev.  Thomas  Smith,  pastor  of  the  First  Parish  at  Falmouth, 
now  Portland,  Me.  After  preaching  forty-tive  years  to  this  church,  he  received  as  col- 
league  Rev.,  afterward  Dr.,  Ichabod  Nichols.  Brown  University  conferred  on  him,  in  1790, 
the  degree  of  D.  D.    He  died  November  12, 1814. 

—  Pitchwood    Hill.       18°,    pp.    11.     AYrittcn    in  the    year    1780,   and 

appeared   originally  in   tlie  Cumberland,  Me.,   Gazette,  March  5, 
1795.     Portland,  1806. 
13 


76  HAKKIS    COLLECTION. 

De  Chatelain,  (Chevalier.)  Evangeline  ;  Suivie  des  Voix  do  la  Nuit ; 
Poemes  Traduits  de  H.  Longfellow.  10°,  pp.  viii,  92.  London, 
Paris,  New  York,  1856. 

De  Costa,  (B.  F.) 

Benjamin  Franklin  De  Costa,  D.  D.,  a  well-known  minister  of  the  Protestant  Episco- 
pal Church,  at  this  date  (1880)  Hector  of  the  Church  of  St.  John  the  Evangelist,  New  York 
city. 

—  Hiawatha.     The  Story  of  the  Iroquois  Sage  in    Prose    and   Verse. 

Sm.  8°,  pp.  32.     New  York,  1873. 

Deems,  (C.  M.  F.)  Devotional  Melodies.  12°,  pp.  x,  48.  Raleigh, 
1841. 

De  Grasse,  (Will.)  Swallows  on  the  Wing,  etc.  12°,  pp.  80.  New 
York,  186G. 

Several  poems  in  the  volume. 

De  Kay,  (C.)     Hesperus,  etc.     8°,  pp.  269.     New  York,  1880. 

—  The  Vision  of  Nimrod.     8°,  pp.  261.     New  York,  1881. 

Deluge,  The.  A  Demi-Serious  Poem.  By  a  Mr.  Smith.  Canto  the 
First.     8°,  pp.  50.     Philadelphia,  printed  for  the  Author,  1830. 

D'Elville,  (Ben.)  The  Hermitage  ;  or,  Alphonso  and  Agnes.  24°,  pp. 
44.     New  York,  1813. 

Demarest,  (Mary  Lee.)  My  Ain  Countrce,  etc.  18°,  pp.  vi,  146. 
New  York,  1882. 

Democracy.  An  Epic  Poem.  By  Aquiline  Nimble  Chops,  (pseud.) 
Canto  First.      12°,  pp.  20.     New  York,  no  date. 

Demos  in  Council  ;  or,  'Bi.t ah  in  Pandemonium.  Being  a  Sweep  of  the 
Lyre.  In  close  imitation  of  Milton.  (Anon.)  16°,  pp.  16. 
Boston,  1799. 

The  imilation  is  of  the  addresses  of  Satan  and  others  to  the  vanquished  spirits  in  hell. 

Denis,  (A.)       "  Tammany  Hall,"  etc.      12°,  pp.  46.     New  York,  1847. 

Denison,  (C.  AV.)  The  American  Village,  etc.  18°,  pp.  143.  Bos- 
ton, 1845. 

Denison,  (E.)  The  Lottery,  etc.  (St.  Denis  le  Cadet,  i^seucl.)  12°, 
pp.  71.     Baltimore,  1815. 


AMERICAN    POETKY.  77 

Denison,  (F.) 

Frederic  Denison  was  born  at  Stonington,  Conn.,  September  28,  1819,  graduated  at 
Brown  University  in  1847,  has  been  pastor  of  Baptist  Churclies  in  Westerly,  R.  1.,  Xor- 
wich.  Conn.,  Central  Falls,  R.  I.,  New  Haven,  Conn.,  Woonsocket  and  Providence,  R.  I., 
was  Cliaplain  in  the  army  three  years,  with  the  First  Rliode  -Island  Cavalry  and  Third 
Rhode  Island  Heavy  Artillery.    Present  residence  ( 1886) ,  Providence,  R.  I. 

—  Canonicus  Memorial.     Poem   delivei'ed  September  21,  1883,  at  the 

Erection  of  "The  Boulder  Memorial"  in  honor  of  Canonicus.    pp. 
18-23  of  the  Account  of  the  Exerci.ses.     Providence,  1883. 

—  Demons  in  Council ;    A   Temperance    Lyric.     16°,  pp.  12.     Provi- 

dence, 1878. 

—  Home-Lay  at    the    Denison    Homestead,  November  29,   1883.     8°, 

pp.  28. 

—  Soul-Liberty.      18°,  pp.  12.     Mystic,  Conn.,  1872. 

Denny,  (W.  H.)  Succotash.  Written  on  the  occasion  of  the  Centennial 
Celebration  of  the  Evacuation  of  Fort  Duquesne.  18°,  pp.  24. 
Pittsburgh,  1858. 

Denouement,  The  ;  or,  Apollo  Cured  of  the  Blue  Devil.  Recited 
at  the  Anniversary  of  the  LTnion  Book  Society,  1807.  (Anon.) 
12°,  pp.  11.     Washington,  1807. 

Denton,  (W.) 

William  Denton  was  born  at  Darlington,  Durham  county,  England,  in  1823.  His  edu- 
cation was  in  an  English  Penny  School,  and,  for  six  months,  at  the  age  of  nineteen,  he 
attended  a  Normal  School  in  London.  AVhile  residing  at  the  West  he  has  devoted  himself 
to  teaching  and  lecturing. 

—  Poems.     2d  Edition.      12°,  pp.  118.     Cleveland,  1850. 

D'Entremont,  (C.  H.)  Shoemaker's  Original  Poems.  (Anon.)  1  p. 
folio,  folded  4°.      No  place,  no  date. 

Derby,  (J.  B.) 

John  Barton  Derby  was  born  at  Salem,  Mass.,  in  1"93,  and  graduated  at  Bowdoin  Col- 
lege in  1811.  He  studied  law,  and  interested  himself  much  in  political  matters.  For  some 
time  he  lield  an  office  in  tlie  Boston  Custom  House.    He  died  in  1867. 

—  Musings  of  a  Recluse.      18°,  pp.  180.     Boston,  1837. 

—  The  Sea.     18°,  pp.  16.     Boston,  1840. 

—  The  Village.      18°,  pp.  18.     Boston,  1841. 

Description,  A  Metrical,  of  a  Fancy  Ball  at  Washington,  April 
9,  1858.  (Anon.)  Dedicated  to  Mrs.  Senator  Gwin.  4°,  pp. 
40.     Washington,  1858. 


78  HAKRIS    COLLECTION. 

Deseret  Deserted  ;  or,  The  Last  Days  of  Brigham  Young.  As  per- 
formed at  Wallack's  Theatre.  (Anon.)  12°,  pp.28.  New  York, 
no  date. 

De  Vere,  (Mary  A.)  Love  Songs.  Sq.  16°,  pp.  103.  New  York, 
1870. 

De  Vere,  (Yey.)  You  Know  How  it  is  Yourself,  Sir.  A  Humorous 
Poem.      18°,  pp.  35.     Boston,  1871. 

Devereaux,  (Mrs.  R.)     Poems.     8°,  pp.  29.     New  York,  1803. 

Devereux,  (G.  H.)  Literary  Fables  ;  or,  Yriarte.  Translated  from  the 
Spanish.      12°,  pp.  viii,  144.     Boston,  1855. 

Devil,  The,  and  the  Grog-Seller.  (Anon.)  18°,  pp.  15.  Alle- 
gheny, 1842. 

Devil's  Shaving  Mill.     (Anon.)     18°,  pp.  44.     Taunton,  1813. 

Devil's,  The,  New  Walk.  A  Satire.  (Anon.)  12°,  pp.  12.  Boston, 
1848. 

De  Witt,  (Susan  A.)  The  Pleasures  of  Religion.  18°,  pp.  72.  New 
York,  1820. 

De  Wolf,  (Abby.)  Poems  for  Children.  12°,  pp.  33.  Providence, 
1855. 

De  Wolf,  (W.)  Poems.  8°,  not  paged.  Providence,  privately  printed, 
1883. 

Presented  to  "  The  Harris  Collection  "  by  Dr.  J.  J.  De  Wolf,  a  well-known  physician  of 
Providence. 

Dexter,  (C.)      Versions  and  Verses.      12°,  pp.  156.     Cambi'idge,  1865. 

Dialogue  Between  a  Southern  Delkgate  and  his  Spouse,  etc. 
(Mary  V.  V.,  ^jseud.)     8°,  pp.  14.     No  place,  1774. 

Dick,  (A.)  Splores  of  a  Halloween,  Twenty  Years  Ago.  18°,  pp.  22. 
Woodstock,  C.  W.,  1867. 

Dick    Shift;  or.  The    State   Triumvirate.      (Anon.)     16°,   pp.   81. 

New  York,  1819. 

Dickinson,  (A.)  The  City  of  the  Dead,  etc.  18°,  pp.  iv,  108.  New 
York,  1845. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  79 

DiCKiKSON,  (Mary  Lowe.)  Edelweiss.  An  Alpine  Rhyme.  8q.  18°, 
pp.  102.      New  York,  1876. 

DiMMOCK,  (C.  H.)  The  Modern:  A  Fragment.  8°,  pp.  24.  Rich- 
mond, Va. ,  18G6. 

DiMOND,  (W.)  '  Native  Land  ;  or,  The  Return  from  Slavery.  An  Opera 
in  Three  Acts.      18°,  pp.  71.     New  York,  1824. 

Diogenes,  The  Neav.      (Anon.)      18°,  pp.  100.     Philadelphia,  1848. 

Discipline  of  Earth  and  Time,  for  Freedom  and  Immortality.  Four 
Books  of  an  Unpublished  Poem.  (Anon.)  16°,  pp.  vi,  147. 
Boston,  1854. 

Discovery,  The,  OF  America.      (Anon.)     8°,  pp.  35.    Richmond,  1835. 

On  p.  35  appears  tlie  name,  "  John  Headlam,  Durham  University." 

Dix,  (J.  A.)      DiesIriB.     12°,  pp.  15.     Cambridge,  1863. 

Dix,  (J.  R.)  Teaching  and  Teachers.  In  tlie  "  Massachusetts  Teacher," 
for  March,  1855.     8°,  pp.  12. 

Dix,  (W.  G.)      Pompeii  and  other  Poems.      12°,  pp.  160.      Boston,  1848. 

—  The  Deck  of  the  Crescent  City.      12°,  pp.  46.     Boston,  1852. 

DoANE,  (G.  W.,  D.D.) 

George  Washington  Doane  was  born  at  Trenton,  N.  J.,  in  17i)9,  graduated  at  Union 
College  in  1818,  ordained  an  Episcopal  clergyman.  Deacon  1821, -and  Priest  1823,  Rector  of 
Trinity,  New  York,  for  three  years.  Professor  in  Washington,  now  Trinity,  College,  Hart- 
ford, 1824-28,  Rector  of  Trinity,  Boston,  1828-32,  consecrated  Bishop  of  New  Jersey,  1832, 
died  in  I8.')9.  ' 

—  Songs  by  the  Way.     od  Ixlition.     8°,  pp.  viii,  196.     Albany,  1875. 

DoANE,  (H.)     Poems.     18°,  pp.  71.     Boston,  1826. 

Doddridge,  (J.)  Logan,  etc.  12°,  pp.  46.  Buffalo  Creek,  Brooke 
Co.,  Va.,  1823. 

—  Same.      4°,  pp.  76.      Reprnited   from   the  Virginia  Edition  of  1823. 

Cincinnati,  1868. 

Dodge,  (Mrs.  H.  M.)  Hesselrigge  ;  or.  The  Death  of  Lady  WaUace, 
etc.     8°,  pp.  158.     Utica,  1827. 

Dodge,  (Mary  M.)     Along  the  Way.     12°,  pp.  135.     New  York,  1879. 

Well-known  editor  of  "  Saint  Nicholas." 

Domestic  Industry.     (Anon.)     18°,  pp.  24.     No  place,  no  date. 


80  HAKRIS    COLLECTION. 

Dox   Paez,    and    other   Poems.      (Anou.)     12°,   pp.   vii,   150.     New 
York.  1847. 

Donaldson,    (S.   J.,  Jr.)       Lyrics  and    other    Poems.      12°,   pp.   208. 
Philadelphia.  1860. 

Donnelly,  (I.  L.)     The  Mourner's  Vision.      12°,  pp.  80.     Pliiladelphia, 

ISoO. 
DONOHO,  (T.  8.)     M«na,  etc.     12°,  pp.  144.     Washington,  1847. 
Doolittle,  (J.   C.)     Poems.      18°,  pp.  G8.     Toledo,  Ohio,  1858. 
DoRGAN,  (J.  A.)     Studies.     12°,  pp.  223.     Philadelphia,  1862. 

Dorr,  (Julia  C.  R.)     Friar  Anselmo,  etc.     12°,  pp.  178.     New  York, 
1879. 

—  Vermont.     A  Centennial  Poem.     8°,  pp.  12.     Boston,  1877. 

Dorset,  (Mrs.  Anna  H.)     Flowers   of   Love    and    Memory.     12°,  pp. 

137.     Baltimore,  1849. 
Dow,  (J.   E.)     Autumn:    A  Prize  Poem.      12°,  pp.   87.     Washington, 

1848. 
Dow,  (P.) 

Peggy  Dow  was  the  wife  of  the  eccentric  preacher,  Lorenzo  Dow. 

—  A  Collection  of  Methodist  Hymns.     Selected  by  Peggy  Dow.     Second 

Edition.  24%  pp.  iv,  p.  i  being  the  title,  and  pp.  iii  and  iv,  "A 
Short  Account  of  the  Rise  and  Progress  of  the  Camp  Meetings  in 
the  United  States."  pp.  5-8,  "Cosmopolite's  Muse."  pp.  8-128, 
Hymns.     Philadelphia,  1816. 

So  rare  and  valuable  that  it  was  sent  to  London  and  bound  by  F.  Bedford. 

Downey,  (S.  W.)     The  Immortals.     Published  in  Co»(//-es.s/'o«aZ  Becord, 
4°,  pp.  15.     Washington,  April  22,  1880. 

Downing,  (Mrs.  .)     Pluto:  Being  the  Sad   Story  and   Lamentable 

Fate  of  the  Fair  Minthe.     8°,  pp.  35.     Raleigh,  1867. 

Do  You  Remember?     No  title-page.     18°,  pp.  13. 

Drake,  (J.  R.) 

Joseph  Rodman  Drake  was  born  in  the  city  of  New  York,  August  7,  1795,  studied 
medicine  and  was  admitted  to  practice,  but  did  not  follow  his  profession.  He  wrote  the 
first  four  of  "  The  Croaker  Pieces,"  published  in  the  yew  York  Evening  Post,  JIarch 
10-20,  1819.  His  two  poems,  the  "American  FUig"  and  "Culprit  Fay,"  have  secured  for 
their  author  a  well  deserved  reputation.    He  died  in  New  York,  September  2,  1820. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  81 

Drake,  (J.  R.)  —  (Continued.) 

—  American    Flag.     Illustrated    by  Darley.     4%   pp.   4.     Ne^v  York, 

1861. 

—  The  Culprit  Fay.      12°,  pp.  62.     New  York,  1859. 

—  Same.     With  One  Hundred  Illustrations.     Lg.  12°,  pp.  118.     New 

York,  1867. 

Dramatic  Pieces.  Three  vohmies  boimd  in  one.  12°,  each  piece  paged 
by  itself.     New  Haven,  1791. 

Dream,  A,  of  a  Happier  Time,  etc.  Lg.  8°,  pp.  40.  New  York, 
1855. 

Drinkwater,  (M.)  The  United  Worlds.  12°,  pp.  250.  Hamilton, 
N.  Y.,  1834. 

Drown,  (D.  A.)  Fragrant  Flowers,  etc.  12°,  pp.  xii,  236.  Boston, 
1860. 

Drunkard,  The;  or.  The  Fallen  Saved.  (Anon.)  12°,  pp.  50. 
Boston,   1847. 

DuANE,  (W.  N.)  (Phineas  Camp,  pseud.)  Poems  of  the  Mohawk 
Valley,  etc.      12°,  i)p.  vi.  204.     Utica,  N.  Y.,  1859. 

DuBOCCAGE,  (Madame.)  La  Columbiade ;  ou,  La  Foi  Portee  An  Nou- 
veau  Monde.     Poeme.     12°,  pp.  184.     Paris,  1756. 

DuFFiELD,  (S.  W.)  The  Heavenly  Land.  12°,  pp.  xv,  12.  New  York, 
1867. 

DUGANNE,    (A.  J.  H.) 

Augustine  Joseph  Hickey  Duganne  was  born  at  Boston  in  18i3,  and  devoted  his  life 
mainly  to  literary  pursuits.    He  died  in  New  York  City,  .luly  14,  1875. 

—  Massachusetts,  etc.     32°,  pp.  64.     Boston,  1843. 

—  Parnassus  in  Pillory.      A   Satire  by  Motley  Manners,  Esq.,  (pseud.) 

12°,  pp.  96.     New  York,  1851. 

—  The  Mission  of  Intellect.     Delivered   at  the  Metropolitan  Hall,  New 

York,  December  20,  1852.      12°,  pp.  33.     New  York,  1853. 

—  The  Poetical  Works.     8°,  pp.  x,  407.     Philadelphia,  1855. 

DuLCKEN,  (II.  W.)  Tlie  Book  of  the  German  Songs,  from  the  Six- 
teenth to  the  Nineteentli  Century.  12°,  pp.  xxi.  324.  London, 
1856. 


82  HAKKIS    COLLECTION. 

DUNLAI',    (W.) 

William  Dunlap  was  born  February  19, 17C6,  at  Perth  Amboy,  N.  J.  For  many  years 
he  was  manager  of  the  Park  Theatre,  New  York,  and  was  a  voluminous  writer  of  plays. 
Hewa.salso  a  popular  portrait  painter.  For  details  see  "  Duyckinck's  Cyclopedia,"  vol. 
i,  pp.  537-544. 

—  Arohcvs  of  Switzerluiid.     8%  pp.  1)4.     New  York,  1796. 

—  Andre.      A  Tragedy  in  Five  Acts,  etc.      In  which  are  added  Authen- 

tic Documents  respecting  Major  Andre,  consisting  of  Letters  to 
Miss  Seward,  The  Cow  Chase,  Proceedings  of  the  Court  Martial, 
etc.      12°;  pp.  viii,  109.     New  York,  1798. 

The  "Letters"  were  written  to  Miss  Julia  Seward,  of  Litchfield,  England,  a  sister  of 
Honora  Steward,  to  whom  Andre  was  greatly  attached. 

—  Blue  Beard.     A  Dramatic  Romance.     18°,  pp.  48.     New  York,  date 

indistinct,  1802(?). 

—  Darby's  Return.     A  Comic  Sketch.     12°,  pp.  14.     New  York,  1789. 

—  Same.     18°,  pp.  9.     New  York,  1807. 

—  False    Shame.      (The  original   MS.)      4°,  not  paged.     New  York, 

1799. 

—  Fontainville  Abbey.     A  Tragedy.      18°,  pp.  209.     New  York,  1807. 

—  Fraternal  Discord.     A  Drama.      18°,  pp.  67.     New  York,  1809. 

—  Leicester.     A  Tragedy.      16°,  pp.  150.     New  York,  1807. 

—  Lovers'  Vows.     A  Play.     18°,  pp.  74.     New  York,  February,  1814. 

—  Peter  the  Great ;  or.  The  Russian  Mother.     A  Play.      18°,  pp.  56. 

New  York,  1814. 

—  Ribbemont ;  or.  The    Feudal    Baron.      A    Tragedy.      18°,    pp.    72. 

New  York,  1803. 

—  Tell  Truth  and  Shame  the  Devil.     A  Comedy  in  Two  Acts.      12°, 

pp.  44.     J»few  York,  1797. 

—  Trip  to  Niagara.     A  Farce.      18°,  pp.  54.     New  York,  1830. 

—  The   Father  of  an    Only  Child.     A   Comedy.     18°,   pp.  81.     New 

York,  1807. 

—  The  Glory  of  Columbia  Her  Yeomanry.      18°,  pp.  56.     New  York, 

May,  1817. 

—  The  Good  Neighbor.      18°,  pp.  12.     New  York,  1814. 

—  The  Italian  Father.      18°,  pp.  63.     New  York,  May,  1810. 

—  The  Voice  of  Nature.      18°,  pp.  41.     New  York,  1803. 

—  Same.     2d  Edition.     New  York,  1807. 

_  Wife  of  Two  Husbands.      18°,  pp.  55.     New  York,  February,  1881. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  83 

DuNLAP,  (W.)  — Continued. 

—  Yankee  Chronology.      18°,  pp.  16.     New  York,  December,  1812. 

DURFEE,  J.,    (LL.  D.) 

Job  Durfee  was  born  at  Tiverton,  R.  I.,  September  'M,  iroG,  graduated  at  Brown  Uni- 
versity in  1813,  was  admitted  to  the  bar.  was  Representative  to  Congress  1820-25,  elected 
Associate  Judge  of  tlie  Supreme  Court  of  Rhode  Island  in  1833,  and  Chief  .Tusticein  1835, 
"a  position  which  beheld  with  peculiar  honor  to  himself  and  to  the  State  through  the 
trying  period  of  the  Dorr  '  Rebellion,'  and  until  his  death."  The  principal  poem,  "  What 
Cheer,"  was  published  in  1832,  and  was  most  favorably  received  in  this  country  and  in 
England.    He  died  July  26,  1847. 

—  Complete  "Works.     Edited  by  his  son,  Hon.  Thomas  Durfee,  LL.  D., 

Chief  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court,  Rhode  Island.     8°,  pp.  523. 
Providence  and  Boston,  1849. 

DuRiVAGE,    (O.   E.)     The  Lady  of  the  Lions.     12°,  pp.  20,     New  York, 
no  date. 

—  The    Stage    Struck   Yankee.      A  Farce.      12°,  pp.  18.     Boston,  no 

date. 
DuTCHER,  (J.  W.)     Narrative  of  the  Mysterious    Can.     A  Temperance 
Poem.     18°,  pp.  104.     Amenia,  N.  Y.,  1854. 

DcTTOX,  (T.)     A   Christmas   Hymn,  December  25,  1810.      12°,  pp.  22. 
Brattleborough,  1811. 

DWIGHT,   (T.) 

Timothy  Dwight,  D.  D.,  was  born  at  Northampton,  Mass.,  May  14,  1752,  graduated  at 
Yale  College  in  1709,  was  licensed  to  preach  in  1777,  was  Cliaplain  for  about  two  years  in 
the  Continental  army,  became  pastor  of  the  Greenfield,  Conn.,  Congregational  Church  in 
1783,  and  was  President  of  Yale  College  from  1795  to  1817.    He  died  January  11, 1817. 

—  Greenfield  Hill.     Poem  in  Seven  Parts.     8°,  pp.  181.     New  York, 

1794. 

Earnest   Call,    Ax,    from   a   Schoolmaster,  etc.     18°,   pp.   8.     No 
place,  no  date. 

Earning  a  Living.      (Anon.)     A   Comedy.     8°,  pp.  62.     New  York, 
1849. 

EaSTBURN,   (J.   W.,  AND    HIS    FrIEND.) 

James  AVallis  Eastburn,  an  Episcopal  clergyman,  was  born  in  England  in  1797,  and 
was  a  son  of  James  Eastburn,  the  well-known  bookseller  of  Now  York,  and  a  brother  of 
the  late  Bishop  Manton  Eastburn  of  Massachusetts.  He  was  a  graduate  of  Columbia  Col- 
lege, New  York,  studied  theology  under  IMshop  Griswold,  and  in  1818  became  Rector  of  an 
Episcopal  Church  in  Accomac  county  in  Virginia,  and  soon  after  died  at  the  early  age  of 

14 


84  HARKIS    COLLECTION. 

Eastiuun,  (J.  W.,  AND  iiisFkiend.)  —  Continued. 

twenty-two.  Tlic  "  Friend  "  alluded  to  in  tlio  title  was  Robert  C.  Sand.  For  a  deeply 
interesting  account  of  the  part  taken  by  each  of  these  intimate  friends  in  the  authorship 
of  "  Yamoydcn,"  see  "  Griswold's  Poets  and  I'oetry  of  America,"  1800,  pp.  LMD-SO. 

Easter  Verses  from  FAiRLEirai  Cottage.     (Aiioii.)     Sq.  18°,  pp.  11. 
No  place,  no  date. 

Eastman.  (C.  G.) 

Charles  G.  Eastman  was  born  in  Oxford  county.  Me.,  in  1810.  In  1846  he  became  edi- 
tor of  the  Vervwnt  PflYr/oi,  publislied  in  Montpelier,  Vt.  "He  has  been  highly  com- 
mended as  a  successful  delineator  of  the  rural  life  of  New  England."  His  death  occurred 
at  Burlington,  Vt.,  in  1801. 

—  Poems.      12°,  pp.  208.     Montpelier,  1848. 

Eaton,  (B.  A.)     The  Minstrel,  etc.     18°,  pp.  54.     Boston,  1833. 

Eaton,  (N.  W.)     Alberto  and  Matilda.     A  Drama.     18°,  pp.  17.    Bos- 
ton, 1809. 

Eaton,  (Tn.)      Review  of  New  York.     24°,  pp.  144.     New  York,  1818. 

—  Same.     2d  Edition.      1814. 

Eberle,  (Mrs.  Eeiza.)      The  Pilgrim's  Progress  in  Verse.     18°,  pp.306. 
Berlin,  N.  Y.,  1854. 

—  Same.     4th  Edition.      18°,  pp.  x,  322.     New  Haven,  1856. 

P2cno,  The.      (Richard  Alsop,  Lemuel  Hopkins,  Theodore  Dwight,  etc.) 
8°,  pp.  XV,  331.     No  place,  1807. 

See  sketch  of  Richard  Alsop,  p.  9. 

The  series  of  papers  entitled  "  The  Echo,"  was  originally  published  in  Hartford,  in  the 
American  Mercury,  in  1791.  It  has  its  title  "  from  the  last  of  these  productions,  which 
are  parodies  or  exaggerations  of  newspaper  narratives,  popular  addresses,  governors' 
speeches  and  proclamations  of  the  time,  which  offered  numerous  specimens  with  abun- 
dant provocation  for  the  witty  treatment  which  they  secured  at  the  hands  of  the  Hartford 
wits." 

Duyckinck, 'from  whom  the  above  is  quoted,  says:  "'The  Echo'  caught  the  noise, 
fury  and  rhodomontade  of  orators  and  the  press,  and  reSounded  them  in  louder  measure. 
If  a  penny-a-liner  grew  more  maudlin  and  drunken  in  his  style  than  usual;  ifan  office- 
holder played  his  'fantastic  tricks,'  a  politician  vapored,  or  a  scientific  pretender  bored 
the  public  with  his  ignorance,  or  a  French  democratic  procession  moved  at  the  heels  of 
Genet,  it  was  sure  to  be  heard  of  from  the  banks  of  the  Connecticut.  Metaphors  with  poli- 
tics ran  high.  As  the  Conservative  party  of  the  country,  the  Federalists  had  an  advantage, 
at  least  in  the  assumption  of  authority  in  the  matter,  for  the  force  and  talent  employed 
being  equal,  the  entrenched  party  will  always  laugh  loudest.  What  began  in  '  The  Echo  ' 
with  the  mirthful  travesty  of  a  newspaper  article,  soon  rose  to  the  bitter  sarcasm  of  polit- 
ical controversy.  The  democracy  of  the  day  supplied  the  motive.  In  some  of  the  eccen- 
tricities of  John  Hancock  there  was  enough  ready  material  for  amusement,  while  the 
downright  western  humour  of  Brackenridge  offered  more  resistance  to  the  treatment. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  85 

Echo,  The.  —  {Continued.) 

The  naivete  of  the  former  invited  ridicule,  while  the  intentional  drollery  of  the  other 
already  occupied  the  ground  of  satire.  It  is  easy  to  ridicule  a  fool,  unconscious  of  his  sim- 
plicity, but  a  rival  satirist  is  more  difficult  game.  The  New  England  echo,  however, 
with  its  strongly  reverberating  powers,  receiving  voices  from  all  parts  of  the  country,  was 
well  worth  listening  to.  It  had,  too,  a  guarantee  for  a  certain  decorum  ni  the  necessities 
of  verse.  If  it  fell  into  railing,  the  poetical  '  Echo '  was  at  least  l)ound  to  choice  words 
and  harmonious  numbers  —  thougli  indifferent  enough  at  times  to  such  refinements  — 
while  occasionally  the  victims  were  under  obligation  to  the  wits  for  embalming  their  non- 
sense." 

To  any  one  who  has  a  fit  of  the  "  blues,"  we  commend  the  reading  of  the  parody,  which 
was  No.  1  of  the  •'  The  Echo,"  on  a  highflown  description  which  appeared  in  a  Boston 
newspaper,  July  14,  1791,  of  a  storm  of  thunder  and  lightning,  "on  Tuesday  last,  about  4 
o'clock  P.  Ji." 

Echoes  of  Infant  Voices.  Dedicated  to  "  The  Bereaved  and  Sorrowing 
Parent."      (M.  A.  H.      Anon.)      16°,  pp.  144.     Boston,  1849. 

Echoes  of  Nature.      (Anon.)      12°,  pp.  140.     Philadelphia,  1848. 

Eclogues.      (By  Hengist  Hobnail,  pseud.)     18°,   pp.   IG.     New  York, 

1820. 
Edgarton,  (S.  C.)      The  Flower  Vase.      32°,  pp.  157.      Lowell,  1844. 

Edmund's  Lyre.     With  his  Life,  by  W.  A.  R.     (Anon.)     8°,  \^\^.  850. 

AYashington,  1826. 
Edwards,  (Amelia  B.)     Ballads.     18°,  pp.  x,  127.    New  York,  no  date. 
Edwards,   (C.) 

Charles  Edwards  was  born  in  England  in  1797,  came  to  the  United  States  and  was 
counsellor-at-law  in  New  York.  Among  his  writings  may  be  mentioned  his  "  History  and 
Poetry  of  Finger  Rings."    "  A  curious  and  interesting  volume." 

—  Feathers  From  My  Own  Wings.     8°,  pp.  200.     New  Y'ork,  1832. 

Effort,  The  Humble.     (Anon.)     8°,  pp.  29.     Baltimore,  1848. 

Effusions  of  Female  Fancy.  (Anon.)  Sm.  8°,  pp.  59.  New  York, 
1784. 

Effusions,  Patriotic.  (By  Bob  Short,  pseud.)  18°,  pp.  46.  No 
place,  1819. 

Egg  Thief,  The.  (By  Bricktop,  pseud.)  12°,  pp.  47.  New  York, 
1879. 

Egmont.  a  Tragedy,  translated  from  Goethe.  16°,  pp.  iv,  150.  Bos- 
ton. 1841. 


86  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

Ejected  Addresses,  containing  Episcopo  Punch,  etc.     (Anon.)     12°, 
pp.  21.     Noplace,  1845. 

Scene  —  Kooms  in  the  Herahl  JUiilding,  28th  December,  full  meeting  of  Carriers: 
Senior  Carrier  in  the  Chair.  Meeting  called  in  consequence  of  a  failure  on  the  part  of  the 
poets  at  large  in  responding  to  the  oiler  of  twenty-tive  dollars,  made  on  the  9th  inst.,  for 
the  best  New  Year's  Address.  Senior  Carrier  anticipating  the  failure,  had,  at  the  first 
meeting,  advised  each  member  of  liis  corps  to  come  to  the  call  meeting  prepared  to  con- 
tribute to  an  address  himself.  He  was  secretly  in  favor  of  the  corps  of  carriers  doing  its 
own  poetry  from  the  beginning. 

Elegaic  Poem  on  Dr.  Benjamin  Rush.  (Anon.)  12°,  pp.  32.  Phil- 
adelphia, 1813. 

In  the  same  volume  are  "  Tlie  Portrait,"  by  J.  Pierpont,  "  Apologetic  Postscript,"  by 
Peter  Pindar,  and  "  The  Minister  Impregnable,"  Anon. 

Elegies  and  other  Little  Poems.  (Anon.)  12°,  not  paged.  Balti- 
more, 1800. 

Elegy,  An.  On  the  Death  of  Daniel  Oliver,  Esq.,  Brother-in-law  of 
Gov.  Belcher,  of  Massachusetts,  who  died  in  England,  July  5, 
1726.      12°,  pp.  4.     No  place,  no  date. 

Elegy,  An,  to  the  Infamous  Memory  of  Sr.  F.  B.  (Anon.)  8°,  pp. 
14.     Not  published,  1769. 

Elegy,  Funeral,  to  the  Memory  of  Mr.  Samuel  Jacomb.  (Anon.) 
Sq.  12°.     No  place,  no  date. 

Eliot,  (J.)     Poems.      12°,  pp.  vi,  106.     Greenfield,  Mass.,  1798. 

Elegy  on  the  Death  of  Jonathan  Mayhew,  D.  D.  4°,  pp.  15.  Bos- 
ton, no  date,  probably  1766. 

Eliot,  (S.  A.)     Schiller's  Song  of  the  Bell.     8°,  pp.  16.     Boston,  1839. 

Rev.  Dr.  W.  E.  Channing's  copy. 

Ellet,  (Mrs.  E.  F.)     Poems.     Translated  and  Original.      16°,  pp.  xi, 
229.     Philadelphia,  1835. 
—  White  Lies.     A  Drama.      12°,  pp.  36.     New  York,  1858. 

Elliot,  (Mary.)     Gems  in  the  Mine.      18°,  pp.  104.     Lancaster,  1828. 

Ellis,  (T.  B.)  Poetic  Fillings  on  the  Warp  of  Trade.  12°,  pp.  120. 
New  York,  1851. 

Ellis,  (G.  W.,  M.  D.)  Poem  on  the  Catastrophe  on  the  United  States 
Steam  Frigate  Princeton.      18°,  pp.  4.     Boston,  1844. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  87 

Emblems  of  Mortality.     Death  Represented  by  Numerous  Engravings. 
(Anon.)      18%  pp.  102.     Charleston,  S.  C.,  1846. 

Emerson,    (N.   S.)     A  Thanksgiving  Story;  Embodying  the  Ballad   of 
''Betsey  and  I  Are  Out,"  etc.     12°,  pp.  200.     New  York,  1872. 

Emerson,  (R.  W.) 

Ralph  Waldo  Emerson  was  born  at  Boston,  May  25,  1803,  graduated  at  Harvard  Col- 
lege in  1S21,  taught  in  his  brother's  Ladies'  School  in  Boston  five  years,  in  1826  was 
"  approbated  to  preach,"  ordained  in  March,  1829,  colleague  with  Rev.  Henry  Ware  of  the 
Second  Unitarian  Church,  Boston,  resigned  in  1832,  and  for  the  remainder  of  his  life 
devoted  himself  to  literary  pursuits,  lecturing,  etc.    He  died  April  27,  1882. 

—  Class  Poem.     8°,  pp.  52.     Concord,  1838. 

—  May-Day,  etc.     16°,  pp.  iv,  205.     Boston,  1867. 

—  Poems.      18°,  pp.  254.     Boston,  1865.     Blue  and  Gold  Series. 

Emmons,   (R.,  M.  D.)     Battle  of  Bunker   Hill.     2d   Edition.     16°,  pp. 
144.     Boston,  1841. 

—  Defence  of  Baltimore,  and  Death  of  General  Ross.      16°,  not  paged. 

AYashington,  1831. 

—  The  Fredoniad.     4  vols.     12°,  pp.  357,  371,  326,  350.     Philadelphia, 

1830. 

A  fine  copy.    Bound  in  red  morocco,  with  gilt  edges,  etc. 

—  The  National  Jubilee,  etc.      12°,  pp.  47.     Washington,  1830. 

Emmons,  (W.)     An  Oration  and  Poem.     8°,  pp.  18.     Boston,  1826. 

—  Tecumsch  ;  or,   The    Battle  of   the   Thames.     A  National    Drama. 

12°,  pp.  36.     New  York,  1836. 

England.     History  of  Kings  and  Queens  of,  in  Verse.      (Published  by 
W.  T.  Smithson.)      12°,  pp.  27.     New  York,  1869. 

English,  (T.)     Rest  for  the  Weary.     18°,  pp.  15.     Newburyport,  1809. 

English,    (T.   D.)      The    Mormons.      A    Drama.     12°,  pp.  43.     New 
York,  no  date. 

—  Zephaniah  Doolittle.      12°,  pp.  24.      Philadelphia,  1838. 

—  Same.     2d  Edition. 

Ephemera  ;  or,  The  History  ok  Cockney   Dandies.     (By  H.  Buzz, 
pseud.)      18°,  pp.  14.     Philadelphia,  1819. 

Epistle,  A  Fair.     From  a  Little   Poet  to  a  Great  Player.      12°,  pp.  12. 
New  York,  1818. 


88  HAKEIS    COLLECTION. 

Epistle,  An,  to  Zenas.      (Anon.      In  pencil,  Ganliner's.)      12°,  pp.  15. 

Boston,  no  date. 
EsTABROOK,   (J.    K.)     The    Golden    Wedding.     8°,   pp.    7.     Worcester, 

1862. 
EsTLACK,  (R.)      Ethick  Diversions,  in   Fonr  Epistles,  etc.      12°,  pp.  79. 

New  York,  1807. 
EsTWiCK,    (S.,   LL.  D.)     Maniacs,   The;   or,   Fantasia  of    Bos   Bibers. 

(By  a  West-Indian.     Anon.)      12°,  pp.  128.     No  place,  1824. 

The  author  was  an  English  clergyman. 

Eugenia;  or,  Early  Scenes.  (By  Marshall,  pseud.?)  18°,  pp.  59. 
New  York,  1823. 

EuLOGiu.Ai,  An,  on  Major  General  Joseph  AVarren.  (Anon.)  12°, 
pp.  21.     Boston,  1781. 

Europe,  The  Conquest  of.  In  14  Short  Cantos.  By  Confucius, 
(pseiid.)  Edited  by  John  Smith  in  the  otRce  of  the  "Congres- 
sional Library,"  in  1875.     No  place,  1876. 

Eustaphieve,   (A.)     Alexis.     A  Tragedy.     8°,  pp.  127. 

Bound  in  volume  containing  "  Reflections  on  Peter  the  Great."  12°,  pp.  272.  Boston, 
1814. 

Everest,  (C.  AV.)  ' 

Charles  William  Everest  was  born  at  East  Windsor,  Conn.,  May  27, 1814,  graduated  at 
Trinity  College  in  18:58,  was  ordained  Priest  in  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  in  1842, 
and  became  Rector  of  the  Episcopal  Church  of  Harnden,  near  New  Haven,  Conn.  Here 
he  remained  thirty-one  years,  having  under  his  charge  for  most  of  that  period  a  prosper- 
ous select  school.  Most  of  his  published  works  are  referred  to  below.  He  died  at  Water- 
bury,  Conn.,  January  11,  1877,  while  in  the  service  of  the  "  Society  for  the  Increase  of  the 
Ministry." 

—  Babylon.     8°,  pp.  48.     Hartford,  1838. 

—  Poets  of  Connecticut.     8°,  pp.  468.     Hartford,  1843. 

—  The  Hare  Bell.     3d  Edition.     32°,  pp.  x,  192.     Hartford. 

—  The  Moss  Ro.se.     24°,  pp.  192.     Hartford,  1843. 

—  The  Primrose.     32°,  pp.  128.     Hartford,  1850. 

—  The  Snow  Drop.     32°,  pp.  128.     New  York,  1848. 

—  Vision  of  Death.     12°,  pp.  16.     Hartford,  1837. 

—  Same.     32°,  pp.  127.     Hartford,  1845. 

Everett,  (A.  H.) 

Alexander  Hill  Everett  was  born  at  Boston,  March  19,  1790,  graduated  at  Harvard  in 
1806,  taught  one  year  in  the  Phillips  Exeter  Academy,  studied  law  in  the  office  of  J.  Q. 
Adams,  whom  he  accompanied  to  Russia,  residing  in  St.  Petersburg  1809-12,  subsequently 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  89 

Everett,  (A.  H.)  —  Coutinued. 

was  Secretary  of  Legation,  and  then  Charge  d'Affaires  to  the  Netherlands  until  1824. 
From  1825  to  1829  was  Minister  to  Spain.  Returned  to  United  States,  and  was  editor  of 
the  "  North  American  Review,"  1830-35.  While  serving  as  Minister  Plenipotentiary  to 
China,  died  in  Canton,  June  28, 1847.    One  of  the  most  accomplished  of  American  scholars. 

—  Poems.     12°,  pp.  105.     Boston,  1845. 

Everett,  (D.)      Common    Sense  in  Dishabille,  etc.     One  or  two  poems 
in  the  vokime.      12°,  pp.  120.     AYorcester,  1799. 

Everett,   (W.)      Hesione ;  or,    Em'ope   Unchained.      Phi  Beta   Kappa 
Poem.     Harvard,  July  16,  1868.     Lg.  12°,  j.p.  28.     Boston,  1868. 

EVERHART,    (J.  B.) 

James  Bowen  Everhart,  of  German  ilescent  on  his  father's  side,  was  born  near  West- 
chester, Chester  county.  Pa.,  graduated  at  Princeton  College  in  1842,  studied  law  and 
practiced  in  Westchester  until  1849,  when  he  went  abroad  and  was  absent  about  three 
yejirs,  engaged  in  extensive  travel  aud  study.  Returning  home  he  resumed  practice.  In 
the  late  civil  war  he  was  engaged  for  some  time  in  active  service.  From  1877  to  1883  he 
was  a  member  of  the  Pennsylvania  Senate,  when  he  left  it  for  a  seat  in  Congress,  which 
position  he  now  (188())  holds.  His  "  Jliscellanies,"  published  in  1803,  were  favorably 
received. 

—  Poems.      12°,  pp.  144.     Philadelphia,  1868. 

—  The  Fox  Chase.     12°,  pp.  30.     Philadelphia,  1874. 

Excursion,  An,  of  Mr.  John  E.  Reyborn,  etc.  Members  of  the  Court- 
land  Saunders'  Institute,  June  22,  1867.  Sq.  16°,  pp.  16.  Phil- 
adelphia, 1867. 

Excursion,  An,  of  the  Dog-Cart.     8°,  pp.  24.     New  York,  1822. 

Excursions  on  THE  River  Connecticut.  (Anon.)  12°,  pp.  48.  Bos- 
ton, 1826. 

Exile's  Lay,  The.     (Anon.)     18°,  pp.  122.     Boston,  1855. 

Fagan,  (Fanny).  In  Memoriam.  A  Selection  from  hi'r  Poems.  Lg. 
12°,  pp.  xii,  224.  Philadelphia.  Published  for  private  distribu- 
tion, 1878. 

She  wrote  over  the  signature  "  F."  and  "  F.  F."    Some  of  lier  "  Poems  of  the  War" 
and  "  Songs  of  Freedom"  are  full  of  spirit.    She  died  January  30,  1878. 

Fair  Epistle,  A.     (Anon.)     18°,  pp.  12.     New  Y^ork,  1818. 
Fair,  The  Ladies'.      (Anon.)     16°,  pp.  11.     Brooklyn,  1836. 
Fairbanks,  (Cassie.)     The  Lone  House.     12°,  pp.  15.     Halifax,  1859. 


90  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

Fairfield,  (S.  L.) 

Sumner  Lincoln  Fairfield  was  born  at  Warwick,  Mass.,  June  25,  1803.  He  studied  for 
a  time  in  Brown  University,  but  failing  health  compelled  him  to  leave  college.  For  two 
years  he  was  tutor  in  a  private  family  at  the  South.  In  18L'5  he  went  abroad  and  remained 
one  year.  Keturuing  home  he  devoted  his  life  to  literary  pursuits  with  varied  and 
chequered  fortunes,  and  died  in  New  Orleans,  March  0,  1844. 

—  Abbadon.     8°,  pp.  133.     New  York,  1830. 

—  Lays  of  Melpomene.      12°,  pp.  122.     Portland,  1824. 

—  Mina.     A  Dramatic  Sketch,  etc.      12°,  pp.  v,  120.     Baltimore,  1825. 

—  Poetical  Works.     Lg.  8°,  pp.  viii,  400.     Philadelphia,  1842. 

—  The  Cities  of  the  Plain.     18°,  pp.  58.     Boston,  1827.. 

—  The  Heir  of  the  World,  etc.      12°,  pp.  166.     Philadelphia,  1829. 

—  The  Last  Night  of  Pompeii.     8°,  pp.  309.     New  York,  1832. 

Fales,  (R.)  Peregrinus  in  His  Childhood.  18°,  pp.  296.  Boston, 
1848. 

Fall  of  British  Tyranny.  (Anon.)  Tragi-Comedy.  12°,  pp.  64. 
Philadelphia,  1776. 

—  Same.     12°,  pp.  66.     Providence,  no  date. 

Fallen  Woman,  Soliloquy  of.     18°,  pp.  13.     New  York,  1868. 

False  Shame  ;  or,  The  American  Orphan  in  Germany.  A  Comedy. 
From  the  German  of  A.  Von  Kotzebue.  (Anon.)  12°,  pp.  76. 
Charleston,  1800. 

Family  Tablet.  Selection  of  Original  Poetry.  18°,  pp.  81.  Boston, 
1796. 

Family,  The,  and  Guest,  in  the  United  States.  (By  the  Father. 
Anon.)      12°,  pp.  164.     New  York,  1850. 

Fanaticism,  Spirit  of.      (Anon.)     12°,  pp.  iv,  12.     New  York,  1842. 

Fanaticism  Unveiled.     (Anon.)     8°,  pp.  14.     New  York,  1834. 

Farmer,  (H.  T.,  M.  D.) 

Henry  T.  Farmer  was  born  in  England,  removed  in  early  life  to  Charleston,  S.  C.,' 
where  he  engaged  in  commercial  pursuits.  He  studied  medicine  in  New  Y'ork,  was  admit- 
ted to  practice  in  1821,  and  returned  to  Charleston,  where  he  practiced  his  profession 
until  his  death  at  the  age  of  46. 

—  Imagination;  The  Maniac's  Dream,  etc.     12°,  pp.  163.     New  York 

and  London,  1819. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  91 

Farmer,  (Mrs.  P.)     The  Captives,  etc.     18°,  pp.  236.     La  Porte,  Ind., 
1856. 

Farmers'  Museum,  The  Spirit  of.     12°,  pp.  318.     Walpole,  N.  H. 

Several  short  poems  in  the  volume. 

Fashion's  Analysis.      (Sir  A.  Avalanche,  pseud.)       12°,  pp.  84.     New 
York,  1807. 

Ascribed  to  Blauvelt,  an  American  poet. 

Fashion  ;  or.  The  Art  of  Making  Breeches.     (By  Solomon  Irony, 
'Esq.,  pseud.)     18°,  pp.  19.     Philadelphia,  1800. 

Fashion,  The  Scourge  of.     (Anon.)     18°,  pp.  23.     New  York,  1800. 

Faugeres,  (Margaretta  V.) 

Margaretta  V.  Bleeker  was  born  near  Albany,  N.  Y.,  in  1771.  Her  husband,  Dr.  Peter 
Faugferes,  an  infidel  physician,  was  a  worthless  fellow,  who  abused  her  and  dissipated 
her  fortune.    She  died  January  9,  1801. 

—  Belisarius.     A  Tragedy.      12°,  pp.  53.     New  York,  1795. 

—  John  Young,  The  Ghost  of.     A  Monody.     12°,  pp.  6.     No  place,  no 

date. 
Fawcett,  (E.) 

Edgar  Fawcett,  a  poet  of  New  York  City,  and  editor  of  the  "  Family  Star  Paper,"  has 
contributed  many  articles  to  literary  periodicals  of  tlie  day. 

—  Fantasy  and  Passion.      12°,  pp.  191.      Boston,  1878. 

—  Short  Poems  for  Short  People.      12°,  pp.  95.      New  York,  1872. 

Fay,  (T.  S.) 

Theodore  Sedgwick  Fay  was  born  in  the  city  of  New  York,  February  10, 1807,  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  1S2S,  but  did  not  practice ;  became  editor  of  the  \ew  Yo7-k  Mirror ; 
published  in  1832,  "  Dreams  and  Reveries  of  a  Quiet  Man,"  and  subsequently  was  the 
author  of  several  novels,  etc.  From  1837  to  1853  he  was  Secretary  of  Legation  at  ISerlin, 
and  for  a  number  of  years  was  United  States  Minister  to  Switzerland.  He  ranks  high 
among  American  authors. 

—  Ulric;  or,  The  Voices.     A  Tale.      12°,  pp.  189.     New  York,  1827. 
Fayette  in  Prison  ;  or.  Misfortunes  of  the  Great.     A  Modern  Trag- 
edy.    By  a  Gentleman  of  Massachusetts.     8°,  pp.  vi,  40.     AYor- 
cester,  1802. 

Felch,  (W.)      Supplement  to  Lecture  on  the  Stars.      12°,  pp. — .      South- 
bridge,  1828. 

—  The   Manufacturer's  Pocket   Piece.      12°,   pp.  23.     Mcdway,  Mass., 

1816. 
15 


92  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

Fellojvks,  (J.)      Rominisoences.     Moral  Poems,  etc.     16°,  pp.  xii,  275. 

Exeter,  N.  H.,  1824. 
Felton,  (J.  B.)     The  Horse-Shoe.       Phi  Beta  Kappa  Poem,  Harvard, 

July  19,  1849.     Cambridge,  1849. 
Feltcs,  (Rev.  Dr.)     Lines  occasioned  by  his  Death.     By  a  Friend.     8°, 

pp.  viii,  80.     New  York,  1829. 
Fenn,  (J.)     A  Poem  on  Friendship  and  Society.      12°,  pp.   132.     Sche- 
nectady, 1815. 
Fenner,  (C.  G.)      Poems  of  Many  Moods.       12°,  pp.  iv,  87.      Boston, 

184G. 
Fenno,  (J.)     Original  Compositions  in  Prose  and  Verse.      18°,  pp.  216. 

AVrentham,  Mass.,  1803. 
Ferguson,  (L.  D.)     Occasional  Poems.     12°,  pp.  206.     Rochester,  N. 

Y.,  1857. 
Fessenden,  (T.  G.) 

Thomas  Green  Fessenden  was  born  at  Walpole,  N.  H.,  April  22,1771,  graduated  at 
Dartmouth  College  in  179fi,  went  abroad  on  business,  and  while  there  published  his  "Ter- 
rible Tractoration,"  a  satire  on  the  medical  profession,  which  proved  a  great  success.  It 
was  subsequently  enlarged  to  '"  The  Minute  Philosopher."  His  life  was  devoted  to  literary 
and  agricultural  pursuits.    He  died  November  11,  1837. 

—  Original  Poems.      12°,  pp.  xiii,  197.     London,  1804. 

—  Same.     Philadelphia,   1806. 

Pills.       Poetical,    Political   and  Philosophical,  etc.       16°,   pp.   136. 

Philadelpliia,  1809. 

An  elegantly  bound  copy. 

—  Terrible  Tractoration!!      2d  Edition.      12°,  pp.  xxxv,   186.     Lon- 

don, 1803. 

—  Same.     3d  American  Edition.     Boston,  1836. 

—  The  Ladies'  Monitor.     12°,  pp.  xii,  180.     Bellows  Falls,  Vt.,  1818. 

Fezler,  (Mrs.  Frances.)     Hymns  and  Spiritual  Songs.     18°,  pp.  32. 
New  York,  1836. 

Field  OF  OjiLEANS,  The.     (Anon.)      18°,  pp.  31.     Philadelphia,  1816. 
Field,  (Kate) 

A  daughter  of  Joseph  M.  Field.  He  was  born  in  England,  and  at  an  early  age  came 
to  this  country,  where  he  was  actor,  editor,  etc.  The  daughter  is  celebrated  as  a  writer 
and  actress. 

—  Mad  on  Purpose.     A  Comedy.      12°,  pp.  48.     New  York,  1868. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  93 

Field,  (M.  B.)     Trifles  in  Verse.     Sq.  8°,  pp.  40.     New  York,   1869. 

—  Vive  La  France.     Translation  into  French  of  O.  W.  Holmes's  Toast 

at  the  Prince  Napoleon  Dinner  at  the  Eevere  House,  Boston,  Sep- 
tember 25,  1861.      12°,  pp.  3.     No  place,  no  date. 

Copy  presented  by  Mr.  Field  to  Richard  Grant  Wliite. 

Field,  (S.) 

Samuel  Field  was  born  at  Deerfleld,  Mass.,  September  14,  1743,  graduated  in  1762, 
studied  law,  practicing  lor  a  time  in  his  native  place,  then  removed  to  Greenfield,  where 
he  remained  till  1774,  when  he  took  up  his  residence  in  Conway,  Mass.  In  1776  he  returned 
to  Deerfleld,  residing  there  till  1794,  when  he  went  back  to  Conway,  where  he  died  Septem- 
ber 17,  1800.  3Ir.  F.  was  an  "elder"  in  the  Sandemanian  church,  for  an  account  of 
whose  "  Tenets  and  Practices  "  see  the  volume  whose  title  is  given  below,  pp.  21-49. 

—  Poetry  and  Prose.      18°,  pp.  284.     Greenfield,  Mass.,  1818. 

Field,  (T.  W.)     The  Minstrel  Pilgrim,  etc.    Sq.  8°,  pp.  50.    New  York, 
1848. 

Fields,  (J.  T.) 

James  T.  Fields  was  born  at  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  December  31, 1817.  For  many  years 
he  was  a  partner  in  the  well-known  publishing  house  of  Ticknor  &  Fields,  the  warm 
and  liberal  friend  of  authors,  himself  having  marked  literary  tastes,  and  was  a  writer  of 
ability,  both  in  prose  and  poetry.    He  died  April  24,  1881. 

—  A  Few  Verses  to  a  Few  Friends.     12°,  pp.  78.     No  place,  no  date. 

—  Poems.     Sq.  16°,  pp.  vi,  99.     Boston,  1849. 

—  Same.     Sq.  18°,  pp.  128.     Cambridge,  1854. 

FiLiOLA.     A  Drama.      (Anon.)      12°,  pp.  24.     Baltimore,  1873. 

Finch,  (F.  M.)     Senior  Class  Poem,  Yale,  July  3,   1849.     8°,  pp.  52. 
New  Haven,  1849. 

—  Linonian  Society,  Yale.     Poem.     8°,  pp.  55,     New  Haven,  1853. 

First  Voyage,  The  Sailor  Boy's.     A  Ballad.     (Anon). 

Fish,  (F.  W.)     Poems.     Sq.  18°,  pp.  124.     New  Haven,  1855. 

—  The  Mind  and  the  Heart.      12°,  pp.  xii,  72.     New  York,  1851. 

Fisher,  (G.  W.)     Poem.     Yale.     Senior  Class  Presentation  Day,  June 
15,  1859.     8°,  pp.  15.     New  Haven,  1859. 

Fisher,  (J.)     Short  Poems.     16°,  pp.  143. 

Fisher,  (T.)     Song  of  the  Sea  Shells,  etc.     8°,    pp.    64.     Philadelphia, 
1850. 


9-4  lIAKKly    COLLECTION. 

FiTCii,  (E.) 

Kev.  Elijah  Fiteli  was  born  in  1~45,  graduiifed  at  Yale  College  in  17C5,  received  the 
degree  of  A.  M.  from  Harvard  College  in  1770,  and  was  minister  of  the  Congregational 
Church  in  Hopkinton,  Mass.,  17  years.    He  died  in  1778. 

—  The  Beauties  of  Religion.     Providence,  1789. 

Flagg,  (W.)  Analysis  of  Female  Beauty.  12°,  pp.  vi,  108.  Boston, 
1834. 

—  The  Tailor's  Shop.     Intended  Chiefly  for  Politicians.      12°.     Boston, 

1844. 
Flea,  The.     (By  You.     Anon.)      12°,  pp.  22.     New  York.  18C9. 

Flambeau,  The  Intellectual.     (Anon.)     18°,  pp.  143.     Washington, 

1816. 
Flash,  (H.  L.)     Poems.     12°,  pp.  168.     New  York,   1860. 

Fleming,  (J.)  Hymns  in  the  Muskokee  or  Creek  Language.  18°, 
pp.  35.     Boston,  1835. 

Flint,  (M.  P.)     The  Hunter,  etc.     12°,  pp.  141.     Boston,  1826. 

Florence,  The  Maid  of  ;  or,  A  Woman's  Vengeance.  A  pseud,  his- 
torical Tragedy.      (Anon.)      12°,  pp.  92.     Charleston,  1839. 

Flowers  of  Autumn,  The.     18°,  pp.  108.     Philadelphia. 

Fogg,  (Mrs.  F.  B.)     Poems.     12°,  pp.  57.     No  place,  no  date. 

FoLLEN,  (Mrs.  E.  L.) 

Eliza  Lee  Cabot  was  born  at  Boston  in  1787,  and  in  1828  married  Professor  FoUen. 
Most  of  her  poetical  productions  will  be  found  in  "  Poems  on  Occasional  Topics,"  Boston, 
1839.    She  died  in  Brookline,  Mass.,  1860. 

—  Hymns,  etc.,  for  Children.     2d  Edition  with  additions.      18°,  pp.  51. 

Boston,  1833. 

—  Hymns,  etc.,  for  Young  People.      18°,  pp.  viii,  99.     Boston,  1847. 

—  Nursery  Songs.     Sq.  24°,  pp.  114.     New  York,  1843. 

Fontaine  La.  Translated.  (Anon.  Entered  by  J.  S.  Wright.)  18°, 
pp.  108.     Boston,  1839. 

Elizur  Wright,  the  translator  of  Fontaine's  Fables,  was  born  at  South  Canaan,  Conn., 
in  1804,  graduated  at  Yale  in  1826,  in  1829  was  appointed  Professor  of  Mathematics  and 
Natural  Philosophy  in  the  Western  Reserve  College.  He  has  taken  an  active  part  as  a 
journalist,  etc.,  in  the  anti-slavery  and  other  reforms.  His  home  in  1885  was  in  Medford, 
Mass. 

—  Same.     3d  edition.     2  vols.      18°,  pp.  247,   290.     Boston,   1842. 

—  Same.     2  vols.      12°,  pp.  245,  351.     New  York,  1860. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  95 

Football,   The  Devil's.     A  Satire.     (Anou.)     8°,    pp.  23.     Boston, 
1879. 

Footprints;  or,  Fugitive  Poems.     (AnoH.)      12°,  pp.   92.     Philadel- 
phia, 1843. 

Footsteps  on  the  Seas.     (By  A.   D.  T.  W.     Anon.)     18°,  pp.  50. 
Boston,  1857. 

Forest  Voices.     Translations  from  the  German,  edited  by  C.  A.  Smith, 
D.  D.      12°,  pp.  102.     Albany,  1866. 

Forget-me-nots  from  Dew  Drop  Dale.     (By  Ruth  Rustic,  j^seud.)    12°, 
pp.  212.     Washington,  1855. 

Forrest,  (M.)     Travels  Through  America.     12°,  pp.  50.     Philadelphia, 
1793. 

FosDiCK,  (W.  W.)     Ariel,  etc.     12°,  pp.  xv,  316.     New  York,  1855. 

Foster,  (W.  C.)     Poems.     12°,  pp.  xii,  137.     Salem,  N.  Y.,  1805. 

He  wrote  under  the  title  of  "  Timothy  Spectator." 

Fowler,  (G.)     The  Examiner.     24°,  pp.  78.     Washington,  1835. 

Fowler,  (M.  B.)     The  Prophecy  ;  or.  Love  and  Friendship.     A  Drama. 
18°,  pp.  34.     New  York,  1821. 

FoxTON,  (E.)     Premices.     16°,  pp.  iv,  196.     Boston,  1855. 
—  Sir  Pavon  and  St.  Pavon.     Sq.  12°,  pp.  84.     Boston,  1867. 

Francis,  (V.  M.)     The  Fight  for  the  Union.     8°,  pp.  63.     New  York, 
1863. 

Frank;  or,  Who's  the  Croaker?     12°,  pp.  41.     New  York,  1820. 

Frankenstein,  (J.)     American  Art.       A  Satire.       12°,   pp.  viii,   112. 
Cincinnati,  1864. 

Freedom's  Gift  ;  or.  Sentiments  of  the  Free.       (Anon.)     12°,  pp. 
108.     Hartford,  1840. 

Freeman,  (F.  W.)     A  Scotch  Ballad.     8°,  pp.  14.     Boston,  1869. 

Freeman,  (N.   C.)       The  Twilight  Dream,   and  Moments  of  Solitude. 
12°,  pp.  vi,  141.     Philadelphia,  1853. 

Freligh,  (J.  S.)     Poems.     12°,  pp.  163.     St  Louis,  1852. 


9G  IIAKRIS    COLLECTION. 

French  Arrogance  ;  ou,  "The  Cat  Let  Out  of  the  Bag."  A  Poeti- 
cal Dialogue  between  the  Envoys  of  America  and  X.  Y.  Z.  and  the 
Lady.      12°,  pp.  31.     Philadelphia,  1798. 

Freneau,  (P.) 

Philip  Freneau  was  born  in  the  city  of  New  York,  January  2, 1752,  graduated  at  Prince- 
ton in  1771,  and  in  1774-75  began  to  write  liis  poetical  satires.  For  two  or  tbrcc  years  lie 
resided  in  the  West  Indies.  The  "  United  States  Magazine,"  publislied  in  Pliiladelpliia, 
was  for  a  time  under  liis  editorial  supervision.  Subsequently  he  was  a  sea-captain.  His 
life  was,  in  some  respects,  spent  in  a  desultory  way.  He  died  by  freezing  to  death  in  a 
severe  snow  storm  near  Freehold,  N.  J.,  December  18,  1832. 

—  A  Laughable  Poem.     12°,  pp.  24.     Philadelphia,  1809. 

—  Miscellaneous  Works.      18°,  pp.  429.     Philadelphia,  1788. 

—  Poems.      18°,  pp.  407.     Philadelpliia,  1786. 

—  Same.     8°,  pp.  455.     Monmouth,  N.  J.,  1795. 

An  elegant  copy. 

—  Same.     2  vols.      18°,  pp.  188,  176.     New  York,  1815. 

—  Same.     3d  Edition.     2  vols.     pp.  280,  302.     Philadelphia,  1809. 

—  Same.     Reprinted  from  the  rare  Philadelphia  edition  of  1786.     Sm. 

8°,  pp.  xxii,  362.     London,  1861. 

—  Same.     With  Memoir  by  E.  A.  Duyckinck.     8°,  pp.   xxxviii,  288. 

New  York,  1865. 

—  The  British  Prison  Ship.      18°,  pp.  23.     Philadelphia,  1781. 

—  The  Village  Merchant.     12°,  pp.  16.     Philadelphia,  1794. 

Fresh  Flowers  for  Children.  (By  a  Mother.  Anon.)  New  Edi- 
tion.    12°,  pp.  176.     Boston,  1852. 

Friendship's  Echo.  (H.  J.  K.  Anon.)  24°,  pp.  59.  Baltimore, 
1853, 

Frisbie,  (Fannie.)  Songs  of  the  Flowers.  32°,  pp.  96.  New  York, 
1855. 

Frisbie,  (L.) 

Levi  Frisbie  was  born  at  Ipswich,  Mass.,  in  1784,  graduated  at  Harvard  in  1802,  and 
after  teaching  for  a  year  at  Concord,  Mass.,  commenced  the  study  of  law,  but  was  obliged, 
on  account  of  an  affection  of  his  eyes,  to  abandon  the  profession.  He  was  appointed  Latin 
tutor  in  Harvard  in  1805,  retaining  the  position  for  six  years,  and  then  was  chosen  Profes- 
sor of  Latin,  and  was  in  office  till  1817,  when  he  was  called  to  the  chair  of  Moral  Phil- 
osophy.   He  died  July  9,  1S22. 

—  Miscellaneous  Writings,  with  some  notices  of  his  Life  and  Character, 

by  Andrews  Norton.     8°,  pp.  Ixi,  235.     Boston,  1823. 

The  poetry  in  the  volume  is  pp.  207-35.  The  longest  of  the  poems  is  a  translation  of 
Horace's  "  Epistola  ad  Florum." 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  97 

Frontier  Maid  ;  or.  The  Tale  of  Wyoming.      In  Five  Cantos.     12°, 
pp.  208.     Wilkesbarre,  Pa.,  1819. 

Frothingham,    (Ellen.)      Nathan  the  Wise.      A  Dramatic  Poem  by 
Gotthold  Ephraim  Lessing.     Translated  by  Miss  F.     16°,  pp.  xxii, 
258.     New  York,  1868. 
—  Translation  of  Goethe's  Hermann  and  Dorothea.     16°,  pp.  165.     Bos- 
ton, 1870. 

Frothingham,  (N.  L.)  Metrical  Pieces.  Translated  and  Original.  12°, 
pp.  362.     Boston,  1855. 

Fudge  Family,  The,  in  Washington.  (Harry  Nimrod,  pseud.)  12°, 
pp.  109.     Baltimore,  1820. 

Fugitive  Poems.     (Anon.)     18°,  pp.  74.     Philadelphia,  1824. 

Fugitive,  The.  An  Epic  Poem  in  one  Canto,  by  P.  Virgilius  Maro. 
(Translated  by  John  Dryden  Bags,  Esq.,  pseud.)  12°,  pp.  44. 
Boston,  1854. 

Refers  to  the  rendition  of  Antliony  Burns,  June  2,  1S54. 

Fuller,  (E.  W.)     The  Angel  in  the  Cloud.     12°,  pp.  107.     New  York, 

1871. 
Fuller,  (Frances  A.  and  Metta  V.)     Poems,  etc.     Lg.  8°,  pp.  x,  264. 

New  York,  1851. 

FuLLERTON,  (Mrs.  ELIZABETH  A.,  of  Baltimore.)  Original  Poetry.  16°, 
pp.  64.     London,  1870. 

FuRMAN,  (G.)     Rm-al  Hours.     8°,  pp.  70.     No  place,  1824. 

—  The  Maspeth  Poems.     Sq.  18°,  pp.  128.     New  York,  1837. 

FuRMAN,  (R.)  The  Pleasures  of  Piety,  etc.  12°,  pp.  viii,  220.  Charles- 
ton, S.  C,  1859. 

FtFRNESS,  (W.  H.)  Translation  of  Schiller's  Song  of  the  Bell.  8°,  pp. 
48.     Philadelphia,  1850. 

Bound  with  F.  H.  Hedge's  Poems  and  Ballads. 

Gage,  (Mrs.  Frances  D.) 

Frances  Dana  Barlcer  was  born  at  Marietta,  Ohio,  in  1808;  married,  in  1828,  James  L. 
Gage,  of  McConnelsville,  Ohio,  wliere  she  resided  for  twenty-five  years.  In  1853  the  family 
removed  to  St.  Louis,  Mo.    She  wrote  under  the  signature  of  "  Aunt  Fanny." 

—  Poems.      12°,  pp.  252.     Philadelphia,  1867.. 


98  HAKRIS    COLLECTION. 

Gaiamaz,  (Yusef  Ebn's.)  Story  of  the  Young  and  Beautiful  CaremsiL 
A  Poem  in  Three  Cantos.      18°,  pp.  ix,  58.     Phihidelpliia,   1833. 

Gaixaher,  (W.  D.) 

William  Davis  Gallaher  was  born  at  Pbiladelphia,  August,  1808,  removed  to  Cincin- 
nati in  ISli),  wluTC  for  many  years  lie  was  engaged  in  literary  pursuits,  and  especially  dis- 
tinguished himself  as  the  editor  of  the  Cincinnnti  Mirror,  and  of  the  "  Western  Literary 
Journal"  and  "  Monthly  Review."    Many  productions  of  his  pen  have  been  published. 

—  Erato  No.  II.     16°,  pp.  GO.     Cincinnati,  1835. 

—  Poem.     Hanover  College,  August  17,  1846.     8°,  pp.  12.     Cincinnati, 

1846. 

Gallery,  A,  of  Famous  English  and  American  Poets.  With  an 
Introductory  Essay  by  Henry  Coppee,  LL.  D,,  President  of  the 
Lehigh  University.  Richly  illustrated  with  nearly  One  Hundred  and 
Fifty  Steel  Engravings.     4°,  pp.  488.     Philadelphia,  1873. 

Gambol,  The  Jims'  ;  or.  How  We  Went  to  Rondout.  (Anon.)  Not 
published.     Sq.  8°,  pp.  16.      1858. 

Ganilh,  (A.)     Odes,  etc.     12°,  pp.  36.     Boston,  1830. 
Gardiner,  (J.  S.)     An  Epistle  of  Zenas.     12°,  pp.  15.     Boston,  no  date. 
Gardiner,  (Mary  L.)      A  Collection  from  the  Writings  of.      Poems. 
12°,  pp.  vi,  122.     New  York,  1843. 

Garland,  The.  A  General  Repository  of  Fugitive  Poetry.  Vol.  I, 
No.  1.  Selected  by  G.  A.  Gamage.  Lg.  8°,  pp.  48.  Auburn, 
N.  Y^,  1825. 

Garrison,  (W.  L.) 

William  Lloyd  Garrison  was  born  at  Newburyport,  Mass.,  December  12,  1804,  his 
parents  being  natives  of  New  Brunswick.  He  was  apprenticed,  when  a  boy,  to  a  shoe- 
maker, and  subsequently  became  a  printer.  In  1827  he  started  the  "  National  Philanthro- 
pist "  in  Boston,  and  January  1,  18.31,  issued  the  first  number  of  the  "  Liberator."  From 
that  time  forward  he  was  the  bold,  uncompromising  advocate  of  anti-slavery.  After  a  life 
of  unwearied  devotion  to  the  reforms  which  he  advocated,  he  died  at  N'ew  York,  Ma«,26, 
1879. 

—  Sonnets,  etc.      16°,  pp.  vi,  96.     Boston,  1843. 

Gaudaloupe.     a  Tale  of  Love  and  War.      12°,  pp.156.     Philadelphia, 

1860. 
Gay,  (J.)      Gay's  Chair.      16°,  pp.  100.     Boston,  1320. 

Gaylor,  (C.)  The  Love  of  a  Prince,  etc.  12°,  pp.  45.  New  York, 
no  date. 


AMEEICAX    POETRY.  99 

Gatlor,  (C.)  —  Continued. 

—  The  Son  of  the  Night.       A  Drama.      12°,   pp.   42.     New  York,  no 

date. 

Gem,  The.     (Anon.)     18°,  pp.  xii,  360.     Boston,  1843. 

Genevese.      (Anon.     Initials,  E.  C.  M.)     A  Collection  of  Brief  Poems, 
etc.     12°,  pp.  32.     Geneva,  1847. 

Genin,  (T.  H.) 

Thomas  Hedges  Geniu  was  born  near  Agnebogue,  Suffolk  county,  on  Long  Island, 
March  23,  1796.  His  father,  John  Nicholas  Genin,  a  native  of  Labeurvillc,  in  the  Diocese 
of  Verdun,  France,  came  to  the  United  States  in  1780,  and  was  a  clerk  in  the  commissary 
department  of  General  Rochambcau's  army.  His  first  wife  lived  but  a  short  time  after 
marriage.  His  second  wife  was  Sarah  Hedges,  of  East  Hampton,  L.  I.,  to  whom  it  may 
literally  be  said  that  he  "  looked  up,"  as  she  was  a  lady  six  feet  and  one  inch  in  height, 
three  inches  taller  than  her  husband,  "  and  was  well  proportioned  and  straight  as  an 
arrow."  The  son,  without  the  training  of  a  college  course,  studied  law  and  made  such  pro- 
gress that  at  th^  age  of  twenty  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  New  York,  and  having  mar- 
ried, took  up  his  residence  at  St.  Clairrille,  Oliio,  in  1817,  and  entered  upon  the  practice  of 
his  profession.  At  once  he  became  an  earnest,  outspoken  opponent  of  slavery,  and  hence- 
forth his  life  was  consecrated  to  the  cause  which  he  had  so  warmly  espoused.  He  was 
also  a  vigorous  advocate  of  protection  as  against  free  trade,  of  refoi'm  in  postal  laws,  of 
railroads,  etc.  Reference  will  be  made  to  his  poetical  writings  in  a  note  under  the  next 
title. 

—  Selections  from  the  Writings  of  the  late  Thomas  Hedges  Genin,  with 

a  Biographical  Sketch.  A  Memorial  Work.  8°,  pp.  613.  viz  : 
Biography,  3-87;  Prose  AVritings,  91-222;  Poems,  225-613. 
New  York,  1869. 

—  The  Napolead  in  12  books.     18°,  pp.  ix,  342.     St.  Clairsville,  1833. 

The  following  communication  to  Mr.  Harris  from  Mr.  John  F.  Genin,  of  New  York,  a 
nephew  of  Mr.  Genin,  accompanied  the  gift  of  a  copy  of  the  works  of  his  uncle  to  Mr. 
Harris : 

115  East  60th  Strekt,  Citv  N.  Y.,  } 
September  30,  1871.  j 

Dear  Sik  :  —  Last  .Tune  I  sent  a  copy  to  Rhode  Island  State  Library.  John  R.  Bart- 
lett,  Esq.,  Secretary  of  State,  acknowledged  its  receipt  and  suggested  to  "  send  a  copy  of 
this  volume  to  Hon.  C.  F.  Harris,  of  I'rovidence,  R.  I.,  in  whose  collection  it  would  seem 
very  appropriate,  as  Mr.  H.  has  the  largest  collection  of  the  writings  of  American  Poets 
of  any  one  in  the  United  States."  Accordingly  it  gives  me  great  pleasure  in  prcf'enting 
this  volume  to  add  to  your  collection. 

The  Napolead  was  written  before  my  uncle,  T.  H.  G.,  was  21.  The  likeness  in  front 
of  Napolead  is  from  an  oil  paintingtakcn  at  that  time.  The  first  5  Cantos  of  the  Napolead 
were  handed  to  Do  Witt  Clinton  for  his  opinion  as  to  whether  the  young  author  should 
complete  it.    He  strongly  urged  him  on.    A  warm  friendship  always  existed  between  them. 

Yours  respectfully, 

John  N.  Gexin. 
16 


100  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

Genin,  (T.  H.) — Continued. 

—  The  Fatal  Disunion.     Written  during  the  Hartford  Convention.      24°, 

pp.  21.     New  York,  1816. 

Genius  of  America,  The.     A  MS.     (Anon.)     No  place,  no  date. 

Geraldixe.     a  Souvenir  of  the  St.  Lawrence.      (Anon.)      12°,  pp.  321. 
Boston,  1882. 

Gerard,  (J.  \Y.) 

.James  Watson  Gerard,  LL.  D.,  a  lawyer  in  New  York  City. 

—  Aquarelles  ;  or,  Summer  Sketches.       (By  Samuel  Sombres,  i^seud.) 

12°,  pp.  95.     New  York,  1858. 

—  (Shelley,  A  Fishe,  pseud.)       Ostrea.       12°,   pp.    72.       New  York, 

1857. 

Giant,  The  Little.     (Anon.)     24°,  pp.  10.     Chicago,  1860. 

Gibson,  (H.  S.)     The  Vision  of  War.      18°,  pp.  x,  152.     Philadelphia, 
1835. 

—  Poems.      16°,  pp.  iv,  154.     Philadelphia,  1834. 

—  Same.     12°,  pp.  156.     Philadelphia,  1834. 

Gibson,  (W.,  U.  S.N.)     A  Vision  of  Fffiry  Land,  etc.     16°,  pp.  iv,  214. 
Boston  and  Cambridge,  1853. 

—  Poems  of  Many  Y'ears   and   Many  Places".      18°,  pp.    166.     Boston, 

1881. 

Gildea,  (J.  R.)      Poems  on  L-eland.     8°,  pp.   35.      New  Haven,  1871. 
Gilder,  (R.  W.) 

Richard  Watson  Gilder  was  born  at  Bordentown,  N.  J.,  in  1844.  As  a  journalist,  he 
wrote  under  the  signature  of  "  Old  Cabinet."  In  1870  he  became  associate  editor  of  the 
"  Century,"  and  has  been  editor  since  1881. 

—  The  New  Day.     Lg.  12°,  pp.  112.     New  Y'ork,  1876. 

—  The  Poet  and  His  Master,  etc.,      12°,  pp.  67.     New  Y^ork,  1878. 

Giles,  (C.)     Drunkards,  The  Convention  of.     32°,  pp.  79.     New  York, 
1839. 

Giles,  (Daphne  S.)     Scriptural  and  Miscellaneous  Poems.      32°,   pp. 
172.     Ann  Arbor,  1845. 


AMEEICAN    POETEY.        '  101 

GiLMAN,  (Caroline.) 

Caroline  Howard  was  born  at  Boston,  October  8,  1794,  married  Rev.  Dr.  Samuel  Gil- 
man  in  1819,  and  took  up  her  residence  in  Charleston,  S.  C,  where  her  husband  was  a 
Unitarian  clergyman.  She  is  well  known  by  her  numerous  writings.  In  1883  she  removed 
to  Cambridge,  Mass. 

—  Tales  and  Ballads.     12°,  pp.  190.     New  York,  1839. 

—  Verses  of  a  Life  Time.     12°,   pp.    263.       Boston  and  Cambridge, 

1849. 

—  AND  (Caroline  Howard.)    Oracles  for  Youth.     12°,  pp.81.     New 

York,  1853. 

GiLMAN,  (S.,  D.  D.)  Pleasures  and  Pains  of  the  Student's  Life.  4°, 
pp.  271.     Boston,  1852. 

Gilpin,  The  Modern.  (Anon.)  A  Ballad  of  Bull  Run.  12°,  pp.  19. 
New  York,  1866. 

Glance,  A,  at  the  Nations,  etc.  (Anon.)  16°,  pp.  60.  Boston, 
1835. 

Glass,  The.     (Anon.)     16°,  pp.  12.     New  York,  1791. 

Glazier,  (W.  B.)     Poems.     12°,  pp.  168.     Hallowell,  Me.,  1853. 

Gleanings  from  the  Field  of  Truth.  (By  Foxhall?)  12°,  pp.  24. 
Baltimore,  1866. 

Gleason,  (H.)  Anniversary  Poems.  Boston  Mechanic  Apprentices 
Library  Association.  35th  Anniversary.  8°,  pp.  12.  Boston, 
1855. 

Glee  Hive,  The.  By  Lowell  Mason  and  George  J.  Webb.  Lg.  8°,  pp. 
112.     New  York,  1853. 

Glenn,  (J.)  The  City  and  Country  Compared.  8°,  pp.  8.  New  York, 
1845. 

Glimpse,  A,  at  Watertown.     2d  Edition.     16°,  pp.  42.     Boston,  1851. 

Glory,  The  Military,  of  Great  Britain.  An  Entertainment  given  in 
Nassau  Hall,  September,  1762.  Sm.  4°,  pp.  15.  Philadelphia, 
1762. 

Glover,  (S.  E.)  The  Cradle  of  Liberty.  12°,  pp.  39.  Boston,  no 
date. 


102  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

GoBKio.iiT.  (L.  A.)  Jack  and  Gill  for  Old  and  Young.  8°,  pp.  29. 
Philadelphia,  1873. 

GoDDAKi),  (Ahba  a.)  The  Trojan  Sketch  Book.  12°,  pp.  viii,  180. 
Troy,  1840. 

A  few  poems  in  the  volume. 

Godfrey,  (T.,  Jr.) 

Thomii.<  Godfrey  was  born  at  Philadelphia  in  1736.  In  1758  he  was  Lieutenant  in  the 
Pennsylv.ania  troops  in  the  Fort  Du  Quesne  expedition.  Afterwards  he  was  engaged  in 
commercial  pursuits.  The  following  is  said  to  have  been  the  first  dramatic  work  written  in 
America.    He  died  in  1763. 

—  Juvenile  Poems,  with  the  Prince  of  Parthia.     A  Tragedy.       Sq.  8°, 

pp.  xxvi,  223.     Philadelphia,  1765. 

Goggles,  (P.)  Bro-de-hed-da.  A  Song  of  Slaughter.  12°,  pp.  15* 
Philadelphia,  no  date. 

Goldsmith,  (0.,  a  Descendant  of  the  author  of  "  The  Deserted  Village.") 
The  Rising  Village,  etc.      18°,  pp.  x,  144.     St.  John,  N.  B.,  1834. 

GooDALE,  (Elaine  and  Dora  Reed.)  All  Around  the  Year.  Verses 
from  Sky  Farm.  Illustrated.  Sq.  16°,  pp.  204.  New  York, 
1881. 

—  In  Berkshire  with  the  Wild  Flowers.     Sq.  12°,  pp.  92.     New  York, 

1879-80. 

Goodrich,  (F.  B.)  Flii-tation,  and  What  Comes  of  It.  A  Comedy. 
12°,  pp.  92.     New  York,  1861. 

Goodrich,  (S.  G.) 

Samuel  Griswold  Goodrich,  the  celebrated  "  Peter  Parley,"  was  born  at  Ridgefield, 
Co  in.,  August  19, 1793,  and  for  a  number  of  years  from  18*^4  edited  "The  Token,"  an 
annual,  in  which  some  of  the  finest  of  Hawthorne's  "Twice-Told  Tales"  were  originally 
published.  A  list  of  his  numerous  productions  will  be  found  in  Duyckinck  and  Allibone. 
He  died  in  1860. 

—  The  Outcast,  etc.      12°,  pp.  vi,  200.     Boston,  1836. 

Goodwin,  (J.  A.)  Poem  at  Bridgewater,  before  the  Normal  Associ- 
ation, August  15,  1849.     12°,  pp.  11.     Providence,  1850. 

Goose.     Old  Mother's  Daughter.      (Anon.)       Lg.  8°,  pp.  32.       Boston, 

etc.,  1856. 
Gordon,  (H.  L.)      Pauline,  etc.     Sq.  12°,  pp.  140.     New  York,  1878. 


AMEKICAN    POETRY.  103 

Gorton,    (S.)     Simplicities    Defence   against   Seven-Headed  Policy,  etc. 
Lg.  16°,  pp.  111.     London,  1646. 

For  a  full  account  of  Gorton,  see  his  life  by  Mackie,  in  "  Sparks's  American  Biog- 
raphy," vol.  XV.  A  few  pages  of  poetry  at  the  beginning  of  the  book  gives  ita  place  in  the 
"Harris  Collection." 

Gould,  (E.  S.) 

Edward  S.  Gould  was  born  at  Litchfield,  Conn.,  in  1808,  and  became  a  merchant  in 
New  York.  He  translated  several  works  from  the  French  of  Dumas,  Balzac,  etc.,  and 
wrote  an  abridgment  of  "  Alison's  History  of  Europe." 

—  "The  Very  Age."     A  Comedy.     12°,  pp.  153.     New  York,  1850. 

Gould,  (T.   A.)      A  Bouqnet  of  Poesy.     12°,   pp.    144.     New  York, 

1848. 
Gould,  (Hannah  F.) 

Hannah  Flagg  Gould  was  born  at  Lancaster,  Vt.,  and  when  young  removed  to  New- 
buryport.  Her  poetical  works  have  met  with  great  favor.  (See  "  Griswold's  Female 
Poets  of  America.") 

—  Hymns,  etc.     12°,  pp.  160.     Boston,  1854. 

—  New  Poems.     12°,  pp.  287.     Boston,  1850. 

—  Poems.      18°,  pp.  174.     Boston,  1832. 

—  Same.     Vol.  III.     12°,  pp.  240.     Boston,  1841. 

—  Same.     2d  Edition.      18°,  pp.  224.     Boston,  1833. 

—  Same.     3d  Edition,     16°,  pp.  239.     Boston,  1835. 

—  Same.     2  vols.     12°,  pp.  239,  240.     Boston,  1839. 

—  The  Diosma.     A  Perennial.     12°,  pp.  287.     Boston,  1851. 

—  The  Golden  Vase.     A  Gift  for  the  Young.      16°,  pp.  224.     Boston, 

1843. 

—  The  Mother's  Dream,  etc.      16°,  pp.  — .     Boston,  1853. 

—  The  Youth's  Coronal.      12°,  pp.  200.     New  York  and  Philadelphia, 

1851. 
Gould,  (Sarah.)     Asphodels.     12°,  pp.  xi,  236.     New  York,  1856. 

—  Poems.      18°,  pp.  180.     New  York,  1860. 

Gould,   (T.  A.)       Bouquet  of  Poesy.       16°,  pp.  vi,   144.     New  York, 

1848. 
Gould,  (T.  R.)     The  Tragedian  :  An  Essay  on  the  Histrionic  Genius  of 

Junius  Brutus  Booth.     12°,  pp.  190.     New  York,  1868. 
Graham,  (J.)     The  Flowers  of  Melody.     In  two  volumes.    Vol.1.     18°, 

pp.  xi,  384.     New  York,   1823.     Vol,   II.    18°,  pp.  388.     New 

York,  1828. 


104  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

Graham,  (W.  S.) 

William  Sloan  Graham  was  born  near  Now  London,  Chester  county,  Pa.,  April  23, 
181S,  graduated  with  the  valedictory  honors  of  his  class  from  Delaware  College  in  1836, 
was  tutor  in  the  college  from  three  to  four  years,  then  became  Principal  of  the  New  Lon- 
don Academy,  and  in  lees  than  two  years  was  called  to  take  charge  of  the  Preparatory 
Department  of  Delaware  College,  entering  upon  the  discharge  of  his  duties  in  1841,  and 
holding  the  position  not  far  from  four  years,  then  became  Principal  of  an  Academy  at 
Harrisburg,  Pa.,  and  died  in  office  October  3,  1847. 

This  volume  was  edited  by  Professor  George  Allen,  Professor  of  Languages  in  the  Uni- 
versity of  Pennsylvania,  pp.  13-150  contain  a  Memoir  of  Mr.  Graham  by  his  wife.  The 
poems  are  pp.  159-250.  The  remainder  of  the  volume  is  made  up  of  Essays  on  Coleridge, 
pp.  253-06,  and  lUiythm,  pp.  260-78. 

—  Poetical  Remains,      12°,  pp.  viii,  94.     Philadelphia,  1849, 

—  Remains.     Prose  and  Poetry.     12°,  pp.  viii,  278.    Philadelphia,  1849. 

Grant,  (C.)  Poem  on  the  Restoration  of  Learning  in  the  East.  8°, 
uncut,  pp.  39.     Salem,  1807. 

Grant,  (R.)      The  Lambs.     A  Tragedy.      12°,  pp.  61.     Boston,  1883. 

—  The  Little  Tin-Gods  on  Wheels  ;  or,  Society  in  our  Modern  Athens. 

2d  Edition.     12°,  pp.  21.     Cambridge,  1879. 

Grate,  (C.)  Eugene.  In  Two  Cantos.  Sm.  16°,  pp.  63,  Philadel- 
phia, 1842, 

Grattan,  (H,  P,)  The  Bottle,  8°,  with  eiglit  plates.  New  York, 
1848. 

Grave,  (J.)  A  Song  of  Sion.  Written  by  a  Citizen  thereof,  whose 
outward  Habitation  is  in  Virginia  ;  and  being  sent  over  to  some  of 
his  friends  in  England,  tlie  same  is  found  fitting  to  be  Published, 
for  to  warn  the  Seed  of  Evil-doers. 

"The  seed  is  sown,  from  which  rare  fruits  do  spring. 
The  Plant  is  grown,  that  heavenly  virtues  bring; 
The  dead  now  lives,  that's  risen  from  the  graves. 
That  praises  gives,  to  him  that  sinners  saves. 
The  morning  of  that  day  is  dawned  clear. 
Wherein  men  may  walk  in  Celestial  Sphere. 
Nations  partake  of  Gospel  Tidings  found. 
Sins  to  forsake,  and  in  Christ  to  be  found. 
And  happy's  he,  that's  lived  to  see  this  day. 
And  blessed  be,  the  living  God  alway. 

By  tiik  Publisher. " 

With  an  additional  Postscript  from  another  hand*[M.  M.,  that  is,  Martin  Mason(?)]. 
Sm.  4°,  pp.  12.    No  place.    Printed  in  the  year  1662. 

A  choice  and  richly  bound  copy  of  a  very  rare  and  curious  tract,  the  production  of  a 
Quaker  pen.  Sabin  says  that  "  a  copy  of  it  sold  at  Puttick's  in  1860  for  two  guineas."  The 
closing  lines  are  as  follows : 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  105 

Grave,  (J.)  —  Continued. 

"  Glory  to  God,  whose  goodness  doth  increase, 
Praise  him  ever,  who  gives  to  us  his  peace. 
Not  else  I  feel,  that  now  to  say  I  have. 
But  that  I  am,  your  fellow-friend,  John  Grave." 

Graves  of  the  Indians.      (Anon.)     18°,  pp.  72.     Boston,  1827. 

Gray,  (A.)  Shades  of  the  Hamlet,  etc.  12°,  pp.  57.  Woburn,  Mass., 
1852. 

Grat,  (Annie.)  A  Child's  Poem.  (Anon.)  Sold  for  the  benefit  of 
St.  Peter's  Church,  Cambridgeport,  Mass.  8°,  pp.  8.  Cam- 
bridge, 1869. 

Gray,  (F.  C.)  Phi  Beta  Kappa  Poem.  Harvard,  August  27,1840. 
12°,  pp.  36.     Boston,  1840. 

Grayson,  (W.  J.)  The  Hireling  and  Slave.  Lg.  8°,  pp.  xv,  106. 
Charleston,  1854. 

—  Same.     2d  Edition.      12°,  pp.  85.     Charleston,  1855. 

Green,    (J.)       Entertainment    for   a  Winter's    Evening.      12°,   pp.   12. 

Boston,  1750.     Reprinted  1795. 
Green,  (J.  W.)     Satan  Conquered  ;  or.  The  Son  of  God  Victorious.     A 

Poem  in  Five  Books.      12°,  pp.  166.     Albany,  1844. 

Greene,  (Aela.)     Rhymes  of  Yankee  Land.     12°,  pp.  91.     Boston  and 

New  Y^ork,  1872. 
Greene,  (A.  G.) 

See  "  Introduction  "  for  sketch. 

—  Anniversary  Poem.     Philermenian  Society,  Brown  University.     8°, 

pp.  24.     Providence,  1829. 

—  Old  Grimes.     Illustrated  by  A.   Hoppin.     4°,  pp.  12.     Providence, 

1867. 
Greene,  (C.  W.)     Versified  Chronology  of  the  Sovereigns  of  Great  Bri. 
tain.     8°,  pp.  17.     Middleboro,  Mass.,  1875. 

Greene,  (N.)  Improvisations  and  Translations.  12°,  pp.  133.  Bos- 
ton, 1852. 

Greenleaf,  (L.  N.)     King  Sham,  and  other  Atrocities,  in  Verse  ;  includ- 
ing a  Humorous  History  of  the  Pike's  Peak  Excitement.     16°,  pp. 
iv,  139.     New  Y^ork,  1868. 
He  wrote  under  the  signature,  "  Peter  Punever." 


106  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

Greens  for  Christmas.  Collected  by  Charles  T.  Morcau.  Sq.  8°,  not 
paged.     1874. 

Greenwood,  (Grace.) 

Sarah  Jane  Clark  was  born  at  Pompey,  Onondaga  county,  N.  Y.,  and  in  1853  married 
Mr.  Loandcr  K.  Lippincott,  of  I'liihidelpliia.  Under  the  novi  de  plume  of  "  Grace  Green- 
wood "  she  has  been  a  welcome,  gifted  author,  her  writings  liaving  had  an  extensive  cir- 
culation. 

—  Poems.     12°,  pp.  190.     Boston,  1851. 

—  Same.     New  Edition.     12°,  pp.  196.     Boston,  1858. 

Gregoire,  (Mons.)  Critical  Observations  on  Barlow's  Columbiad. 
(Not  a  Poem.)     8°,  pp.  15.     Washington,  1809. 

Grenville,  (A.  S.)  Original  Poetic  Effusions.  18°,  pp.  180.  Ded- 
ham,  Mass.,  1823. 

Gridley,    (S.,  M.  D.)      The  Mill  of  the   Muses.      16°,  pp.  vii,  267. 

Exeter,  1828. 
Grievous,  Peter,  Jr.     (^K  pseud.)     A  Congratulatory  Epistle  to  "  Peter 

Porcupine,"  etc.     8°,  pp.  39.     Philadelphia,  1796. 

Griffin,  (E.  D.)  Reverendo  Viro,  etc.  Translations  from  Latin  into 
English  Verse.     8°,  pp.  16.     New  York,  1822. 

Griffith,  (Arabella.)     The  Little  Blind  Girl  of  Normandie.     12°,  pp. 

40.     New  York,  1868. 
Griffith,  (Mattie.)     Poems.     12°,  pp.  viii,  167.     New  York,  1853. 

Griggs,  (H.  N.)  With  Introduction  by  Rev.  W.  R.  Williams,  D.  D. 
Songs  for  the  Sorrowing.     16°,  pp.  xviii,  284.     New  York,  1861. 

Grillparzer,  (F.)  Sappho.  A  Tragedy.  Translated  by  Ellen  Froth- 
ingham.      18°,  pp.  136.     Boston,  1876. 

Grimes,  (G-,  an  Inmate  of  the  Lunatic  Asylum  op  Tennessee.)  The 
Lily  of  the  West.  Prose  and  Poetry.  8°,  pp.  96.  Nashville, 
1846. 

Griswold,  (D.  O.)  Isaac  N.  Arnold.  A  Satire  in  Two  Cantos.  4°, 
p.  1.     Chicago,  1843. 

Griswold,  (R.  W.) 

Rufus  Wilmot  Griswold,  D.  D.,  was  born  at  Benson.  Rutland  county,  Vt.,  February 
15,  1815.  He  studied  theology  and  became  a  minister  in  the  Baptist  denomination.  Early 
in  life  he  was  connected  with  the  press,  being  associate  editor  of  the  New  Yorker,  Brother 


AMEKICAN    POETRY.  107 

Griswold,  (R.  'W.)—r- Continued. 

Jonathan,  etc.  In  1842  tie  took  the  editorial  charge  of  "  Gi'aham's  Magazine,"  which  was 
very  successful.  Dr.  G.  will  always  be  known  as  the  "  Collector  of  American  Poetry." 
He  died  in  185". 

—  Gems    from  American    Female    Poets.     24°,  pp.  vii,  92.     Philadel- 

phia, 1844. 

—  Readings  in  American  Poetry.      12°,  pp.  x,  264.     New  York,  1843. 

—  The  Female  Poets  of  America.     8%  pp.  400.     Philadelphia,  18G0. 

A  fine  copy. 

—  The   Poets  and  Poetry  of  America.     8°,  pp.  xxxiii,  621.     Philadel- 

phia, 1842. 

An  elegant  copy. 

—  Same.     pp.  476.     Philadelphia,  1843. 

—  The  Poetry  of  the  Sentiments.      18°,  pp.  320.     Philadelphia,  1846. 

Gross,  (Mrs.  J.  Mason.)  In  Memoriam.  12°,  pp.  4.  No  place,  no 
date. 

GuEUiN,  (M.)  Satire  against  Satire.  French  and  English.  12°,  pp. 
25.     Baltimoi'e,  no  date. 

Guest,  (M.)     Poems,     1st  Edition.     12°,  pp.  iv,  160.    Cincinnati,  1823. 

—  Same.     2d  Iildition.      12°,  pp.  160.     Cincinnati,  1824. 

Guild,  (R.)  Poem  in  volume  containing  an  account  of  Exercises  at 
the  Birthday  Anniversary  of  the  80th  year  of  his  age.  12°,  pp. 
21.     Providence,  1872. 

GusTAFSON;  (Z.  B.)  Meg:  A  Pastoral,  etc.  12°,  pp.280.  Boston, 
1879. 

Guthrie,  (W.  E.)  The  Betrothed.  A  Nation's  Vow.  12°,  pp.  62. 
Pliiladelphia,  1867. 

Hadcock,  (J.  W.)  Science  Illustrated  and  Applied.  12°,  pp.  186. 
Utica,  1851. 

Hagar  in  the  Desert.  Translated  from  the  French.  18°,  pp.  24. 
Newburyport,  no  date. 

Hagen,    (J.  C.)     Foot-Prints  of  Truth  ;  or,  Voice  of  Humanity.     Lg. 
8°,  pp.  144.     New  York,  1853. 
17 


108  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

IIalk,  (Makv  W.)      rooms.      12%  pp.  21G.      Boston,  1840. 

Hale,  (E.   E.)      Silhouettes    and    Songs.     Illustrated    by   Maria  Hinds. 
Lg.  8°,  not  paged.     Boston,  1876. 

Hale,  (Mrs.  S.  J.) 

Sariih  Josepha  Buell  was  born  at  Newport,  K.  H.,  became  the  wife  of  David  Hale, 
an  eminent  lawyer,  who  died  in  1822.  In  1828  she  became  the  editor  of  "  The  Ladies' 
JIagazine,"  Boston,  which,  iu  1837,  was  united  with  the  "  Lady's  Book'''  of  I'liiladelphia, 
and  slie  continued  to  have  charge  of  the  periodical.  Mrs.  Hale  has  performed  an  extraor- 
dinary amount  of  literary  labor,  for  the  details  of  which  see  AUibone,  p.  758. 

—  Alice  Ray.     Sq.  8°,  pp.  37.     Philadelphia,  1845. 

—  The  Genius  of  Oblivion,  etc.      12°,  pp.  14G.     Concord,  1823. 

—  The  Ladies'  Wreath.     Selections  from  English  and  American  Female 

Poetic  Writers.     2d  Edition.     12°,  pp.       .     Boston,  1839. 

—  Three  Hours  ;  or,  The  Vigil  of  Love,  etc.     1G°,  pp.  x,  216.     Phila- 

delphia, 1848. 

Hall,  (A.  O.)     The  Downfall  of  Tammany  Hall.     12°,  pp.  24.     New 
York,  1871. 

Hall,  (J.  E.)     The  Philadelphia  Souvenir.     18°,  Philadelphia,  1826. 

Hall,  (Mrs.  E.  B.) 

Louisa  Jane  Park  was  born  at  Newburyport,  Mass.,  February  7,  1802.  Her  father 
removed  to  Boston  in  1804,  and  for  several  years  was  editor  of  The  liepertory,  a  journal  of 
the  Federal  pai'ty.  In  the  spring  of  1811  he  opened  a  Ladies'  School,  in  which  for  twenty 
years  he  was  eminently  successful.  The  daughter,  at  the  age  of  twenty  years,  began  to 
publish  the  productions  of  her  pen  anonymously  in  the  Literary  Gazette,  etc.  In  1831 
her  father  removed  his  family  to  Worcester,  where,  although  suffering  from  an  affection 
of  the  eyes,  she  continued  to  pursue  her  studies.  In  1840  she  became  the  wife  of  Rev.  Dr. 
E.  B.  Hall,  of  Providence,  R.  I.  Dr.  Hall  died  March  3,  1866.  Mrs.  Hall  continued  to 
reside  in  Providence  for  a  few  years,  and  then  removed  to  Boston,  which  is  now  (1886}  her 
home. 

—  Miriam.     A  Dramatic  Poem.      12°,  pp.  124.     Boston,  1837. 

—  Same.     12°,  pp.  122.     Boston,  1843. 

—  Same.     2d  Edition.      12°,  pp.  122.     Boston,  1849. 

—  Same.      12°.  pp.  155.     Li  the  volume  is  Joanna  of  Naples,  and  other 

prose  productions.     Whole  number  pp.  403.     Boston,  1850. 

—  The   Cross  and   Anchor.     For    Mariners'    Fair.     Sq.   24°,  pp.   31. 

Providence,  1844. 

Hall,    (Mrs.    James.)       Phantasia,    etc.      '8°,   pp.   144.      New  York, 
1849. 


AMERICAN    POETKY.  109 

Halleck,  (F.  G.) 

Fitz-Greene  Halleck  was  born  at  Guilford,  Conn.,  in  August,  1795,  entered  a  bank- 
ing-house in  New  York  in  1S13,  and  whs  engaged  in  business  pursuits  in  that  city  till  1849, 
when  he  returned  to  Guilford,  where  he  died  November,  1807.  His  life  was  published  by 
J.  G.  Wilson,  1869. 

—  Alnwick  Castle,  etc.     8°,  pp.  64.     New  York,  1827. 

—  Same.  Lg.  8°,  pp.  98.     New  York,  1837. 

—  Same.  12°,  pp.  10-4.     New  York,  1845. 

—  Fanny.  12°,  pp.  49.     New  York,  1819. 

—  Same.  24°,  pp.  48.     New  York,  1833. 

—  Same.  From  the  edition  of  1821.     12°,  pp.  130.     New  York,  1846. 

—  Same.  4°,  pp.  84.     New  York,  1866. 

No.  24  of  an  edition  of  70  copies. 

—  Lines  to  the  Recorder.      Lg.  8°,  pp.  25.     New  York,  1866. 

—  Poetical  Works.     New  Edition.      12°,  pp.  232.     New  York,  1852. 

—  Same.     New  York,  1854. 

—  Same.     New  Edition.      12°,  pp.  238.     New  York,  1858. 

—  Same.     With  Extracts  from  poems  of  Joseph  Rodman  Drake.     Edited 

by  James  Grant  AVilson.      12°,  pp.  xvi,  389.     New  York,  1869. 

—  Young  America:  A  Poem.     16°,  pp.  49.     New  York,  1865. 

Hallock,  (B.)     Poems.     12°,  pp.  204.     New  York,  1856. 

Halm,  (F.)  Baron  Miinch-Bellinghansen.  Translated  from  the  German 
by  C.  P^.  Anthon.  The  Song  of  the  Wilderness.  A  Dramatic 
Poem.     8°,  pp.  166.     New  York,  1848. 

Halpine,  (C.  G=) 

Charles  Graham  Halpine  was  born  in  Ireland  in  November,  1829,  and  graduated  at  the 
University  of  Dublin  in  1846.  He  came  to  this  country  in  1847,  and  was  a  journalist  in 
New  York,  1847-69.  In  ISfll  he  enlisted  in  the  Union  army,  and  was  made  Brigadier- 
General  of  Volunteers  in  1864.  That  year  he  became  editor  and  proprietor  of  the  Citizen 
newspaper.  He  died  August  3,  1869.  His  most  famous  production  is  "  The  Miles  O'Reilly 
Papers." 

—  Lyrics  by  the  Letter  H.      12°,  pp.  vi,  228.     New  York,  1854. 

—  The  Poetical  Works.      12°,  pp.  xxi,  352.     New  York,  1869. 

Hamilton,  (J.)  Drifted  Snow  Flakes ;  or.  Poetical  Gatherings  from 
Many  Authors.      12°,  pp.  208.     Philadelphia,  1864. 

Hamilton,  (Maj.  A.)  Thomas  A'Becket.  A  Tragedy  in  Five  Acts. 
12°,  pp.  106.     New  York,  1863. 


110  IIAERIS    COLLECTION. 

Hamlet,  The  Modern*.     (Anon.)      12°,  pp.  12.     No  place,  1850. 

Haxcock,   (Sallie    J.)     Rayon   d'Ainour.     Poems.      12°,   pp.  xii,  159. 
Philadelpliia,  18G9. 

Hanna,  (AiUGAiL  S.)     Withered  Leaves  from  Memory's  Garland.      12°, 
pp.  390.     Providence,  1857. 

Hannah,  the  Mother  of  Samuel.     A  Sacred  Drama.     (Anon.)     12°, 

pp.   xiii,  94.     Boston,  1839. 
Happiness.      The   Uses  of    Domestick,  etc.      (Anon.)       18°,  pp.  316. 

Pittsbm-g,  1817. 
Happy  Changes.     (Anon.)     24°,  pp.  62.     New  York,  no  date. 
Harbaugh,  (H.)     Poems.     12°,  pp.  285.     Philadelphia,  1860. 
Harbinger,  The.     A  May  Gift.     (Anon.)     12°,  pp.  96.     Boston,  1833. 
Hakby,  (I.) 

Isaac  Harby  was  born  at  Charleston,  S.  C,  ia  1788.  He  was  of  Jewish  descent.  His 
father,  Solomon  Harby,  came  originally  from  Barbary,  where  he  enjoyed  a  post  of  honor 
in  the  palace  of  the  Emperor  of  Morocco,  that  of  Royal  Lapidary.  (See  "  North  Ameri . 
can  Review,"  New  Series,  No.  xxvii,  p.  73.)  The  subject  of  this  sketch  received  his  edu- 
cation in  his  native  city,  where,  for  a  time,  he  was  a  successful  teacher.  Here  also 
he  commenced  his  career  as  a  journalist  and  dramatic  writer.  In  1828  he  removed  to  New 
York,  where  he  became  a  literary  contributor  to  the  Evening  Post  and  other  journals. 
As  a  dramatic  critic  lie  took  a  high  rank.    His  death  occurred  November  14,  1828. 

—  Alberti.     A  Play.      12°,  pp.  55.     Charleston,  1819. 

—  Prose  and  Poetry.     8°,  pp.  287.     Charleston,  1869. 

"  Alberti  "  occupies  pp.  1-55  of  the  "  Writings  "  of  Mr.  Harby  collected  in  this  volume. 

Hardcastle,    (J.)     Masonic  Museum,  The.     Songs   for  Chapters,  etc. 

12°.  pp.  76.     New  York,  5816. 
Hardy,  (D.,  Jr.) 

David  Hardy  was  born  at  Westminster,  Vt.,  July  25,  1829,  removed  in  early  life  to 
Hancock,  N.  H.,  and  then  to  Preble,  N.  Y.,  graduated  from  Courtlandt  Academy  at 
Homer,  N.  Y.,  in  1854,  in  whicli  institution  he  became  a  teacher.  Subsequently  he  had 
charge  of  the  Preparatory  Department  of  Bethel  College,  Ky.,  and  died  in  office  October 
3,  1857. 

—  Poems.      18°,  pp.  260.     New  York,  1858. 

Harlequin   Blue    Beard,     A  Comedy.     (Anon.)     12°,  pp.  16.     New 

York,  1857. 
Harney,  (J.  M.) 

John  M.  Harney  was  born  in  Sussex  county,  Delaware,  in  1780,  lived  in  Bardstown, 
Ky.,  and  subsequently  in  Savannah,  Ga.  This  poem,  in  six  cantos,  was  enthusiastically 
commended  by  John  Neal.    Mr.  Harney  died  in  1823. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  Ill 

Harney,  (J.  M.)  —  Continued. 

—  Crystalina.     A  Fairy  Tale.      12°,  pp.  142.     Ne\v  York,  1816. 

Haroldson,  (J.)  The  Lay  of.  Printed  for  Private  Circulation.  (Edi- 
tion 63  copies.     No.  17.)     8°,  pp.  5.     Philadelphia,  1866. 

Harp  and  Plow,  The.  By  the  "  Peasant  Bard."  12°,  pp.  204. 
Greenfield,  1852. 

Harp  of  Pelha^i,  The.  (Anon.)  18°,  pp.  viii,  106.  New  York, 
1844. 

Harp,  The  ^olian.  (Anon.)  2  vols.  32°,  pp.  124,  124.  New 
York,  1817. 

Harper,  (Mrs.  F.  E.  W.)  Moses:  A  Story  of  the  Nile.  12°,  pp.  48. 
Philadelphia,  1869. 

—  Same.     2d  Edition. 

—  Poems.     18°,  pp.  48.     Philadelphia,  1871. 

Harris,  (S.  B.,  M.  D.)  Remains.  12°,  pp.  312.  Plymouth,  Mass., 
1829. 

Harris,  (S.  M.)  The  Life  Boat.  (Bound  up  with  Discourse  before  the 
Humane  Society  of  Massachusetts.)      8°,  pp.  6.     Boston,  1806. 

Harris,  (T.  L.)  A  Lyric  of  the  Golden  Age.  12°,  pp.  xxxiv,  381. 
New  York,  1856. 

—  An  Epic  of  the  Starry  Heavens.      12°,  pp.  210.     New  York,  1855. 

—  Hymns  of  Spiritual    Devotion.     Part    I.      18°,  pp.  vi,   139.     New 

York,  1857. 

Harris,  (T.  M.,  D.  D.) 

Tliaddeus  Mason  Harris  was  born  at  Charlestown  in  1768,  graduated  at  Harvard  in 
1787,  was  Librarian  1791-93,  became  pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church  in  Dorchester  in 
1793,  holding  the  oflice  forty-nine  years.    He  died  in  1842. 

—  Hymns  for  the  Lord's  Supper.     24°,  pp.  54.     Boston,  1820. 

—  Same.     2d  Edition.      1821. 

—  Triumphs  of  Superstition.     Sq.  8°,  pp.  16.     Boston,  1790. 

Harrison,  (G.)  John  Howard  Payne,  Dramatist,  Poet,  Actor,  and 
Author  of  "Home,  Sweet  Home."  His  Life  and  Writings,  with 
Illustrations.     8°,  pp.  404.     Philadelphia. 


112  IIAinilS    COLLECTION. 

Hakkv.     By  the    Aiitlior  of    "  INIrs.    Joniinghain's   ,louriml."     (Anon.) 
12°,  pp.  145.     New  York,  1877. 

Hart,  (C.  W.)     Imaginary  Debate,  etc.      12°,  pp.  24.     Boston,  1839. 

Hart,  (S.)     Poems.     3d   Edition   Revised.     18°,  pp.  120.     Full  River, 

Mass.,  1855. 
Harte,  (B.) 

Francis  Bret  Harte  was  born  at  Albany,  August  25,  1829,  went  to  California  in  1854, 
and  was  engaged  in  various  occupations  for  several  years.  In  1808  commenced  "  The 
Overland  Monthly "  Magazine.  Some  poems  which  were  published  in  this  periodical 
became  very  popular,  for  example,  "  The  Heathen  Chinee."  In  1871  he  removed  to  New 
York,  and  subsequently  was  appointed  United  States  Consul  at  Glasgow. 

—  East  and  West  Poems.      16°,  pp.  171.     Boston,  1871. 

—  Poems.     12°,  pp.  152.     Boston,  1871. 

—  The    Heathen    Chinee.      Illustrated   by  Joseph    Hull.      Sq.   8°,   not 

paged.     Chicago,  1870. 

—  Same.      Illustrations  by  S.  Eytinge,  Jr.     12°,  pp.  vi,  17.     Boston, 

1871. 
Harvest  Festival,  The.     (F.  S.  H.     Anon.)      18°,  pp.  79.     Boston, 
1826. 

Harvey,  (M.  J.)     Poems  for  the  Drawing-Room.     No.  1.      12°,  pp.  45. 
Concord,  1851. 

Harwood,  (J.  E.;     Poems.      12°,  pp.  107.     New  York,  1809. 

Haskell,   (B.  D.)      Zethar,    the    Celestial  Visitant.      12°,  pp.  71.     No 
place,  no  date. 

Haskins,  (J.) 

James  Haskins,  the  son  of  a  wealthy  Dublin  gentleman,  was  born  in  1805.  His  father 
"  was  the  bemi  ideal  of  the  generous,  warm-hoai'ted,  whole-souled  Irishman.  He  was  dis- 
tinguished for  humour;  and  from  him  his  son  inherited  that  quality  in  a  very  high  degree." 
The  subject  of  this  sketch  took  his  degree  in  Arts  and  in  Medicine  at  Trinity  College  in 
his  native  city.  For  several  years  he  was  a  private  tutor  in  several  families  in  Ireland, 
and  taught  for  a  time  in  England.  In  1834  he  came  to  America  and  took  up  his  residence 
in  Belleville,  Upper  Canada,  where  he  practiced  his  profession,  and  in  other  places,  Trent, 
Loughborougli  and  Frankford.  He  was  also  a  physician.  He  died  at  Frankford  in  the  fall 
of  1845. 

—  Poetical  Works.     12°,  pp.  xvii,  320.     Hartford.  1848. 

Haslett,  (A.)      Original  Poems.      12°,  pp.  95.     Baltimore,  1812. 

Hassan,  (A.  B.,  U.  S.  A.)     Contributions  to  the  Rhymes  of  the  War. 
12°,  pp.  29.     No  place,  no  date. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  •      113 

Hastings,  (Sally.)     Poems.     12°,  pp.  220.     Lancaster,  1808. 

Hastings,    (T.)       The    Mother's    Nursery  Songs.      12°,  pp.   60.     New 
York,  1835. 

—  Devotional  Hymns.      18°,  pp.  220.     New  York,  1850. 

Hathaway,    (B.)     The  League  of  the   Iroquois,  etc.     12°,   pp.  x,   316. 
Chicago,  1882. 

Hawes,    (Mrs.   Elizabeth.)     The  Harp  of  Acushnet.      Poems.     12°, 
pp.  172.     Boston,  1838. 

Hawkins,  (M.)     The  Saw-Mill;  or,  A  Yankee  Ti-ick.     A  Comic  Opera. 
New  York,  J.  &  J.  Harper,  1824. 

Hawks,  (F.  L.,  D.  D.) 

Francis  Lester  Hawks  was  born  at  Newbern,  N.  C,  June  10,  1798,  graduated  at  the 
University  of  North  Carolina  in  1815,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1819,  in  1827  was  ordained 
clergyman  in  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  was  Assistant  Minister  of  St.  James's 
Church,  Fhiladelphia,  in  1829,  Rector  of  St.  Stephen's  Church,  New  York,  18.30,  St. 
Thomas's,  New  Y'ork,  1832-43,  elected  Bishop  of  Mississippi  in  18-14,  but  for  various  rea- 
sons was  not  consecrated;  Rector  of  Christ  Church,  New  Orleans,  1844-49,  of  Calvary 
Church,  New  Y'ork,  1849-06,  the  year  of  his  death,  which  event  occurred  September  27, 
1866. 

—  Poems  Hitherto  Uncollected.     Lg.  8°,  pp.  27.     New  York,  1873. 

Privately  printed.    No.  56  of  60  copies. 

Hawley,  (W.  F.)     Quebec,  The  Harp,  etc.      18°,  pp.  viii,  172.     Mon- 
treal, 1829, 

Hawser,  (Hxrry,  pseud.)     Buds  and  Flowers.     8°,  pp.  132.     Philadel- 
phia,  1844. 

Hay,  (J.) 

John  Hay  was  born  at  Salem,  111.,  October  8,  1839,  graduated  at  Brown  University  in 
1858,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  Springfield,  111.,  1861.  From  1861  to  1865  he  was  Pri- 
vate  Secretary  and  Aide  to  President  Lincoln,  performing  military  service  a  part  of  the 
time,  and  attaining  the  rank  of  Colonel.  From  1865  to  1870  he  was  in  the  diplomatic  ser- 
vice, was  on  the  editorial  staff  of  the  ^Veiw  York  Tribune  1870-76,  and  again  in  1881;  was 
Assistant  Secretary  of  State  1879-81. 

—  Little  Breeches.     Illustrations  by  Engel.      8°,  pp.  14.     New  York, 

1871. 

—  Jim  Bludso  of  the  Prairie  Bell  and  Little  Breeches.     Illustrated  by 

S.  Eytinge,  Jr.      12°,  pp.  23.     Boston,  1871. 

—  Pike   County  Ballads  and    Other    Pieces.       18°,   pp.    167.     Boston, 

1871. 


114  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

Haydn,  etc.  By  tlio  Aiitlior  of  "  Life  Below."  (Anon.)  1G°,  pp.  161. 
Now  Yovk,  1870. 

Haydkn,  Esther.  Account  of  Life,  etc.  (Anon.)  18°,  pp.  12.  Bos- 
ton, 1759. 

Hayks,  (J.)     Rural  Booms.      12°,  pp.  182.     Carlisle,  Pa.,  1807. 

Hayne,  (P.  H.) 

Paul  llaniilton  Ilayne  was  born  at  Charleston,  S.  C,  January  1,  1831.  He  was  for  a 
time  editor  of  "  The  Southern  Literary  Magazine,"  etc.,  and  he  was  known  as  "  The  Poet 
Laureate  of  the  South."    His  residence  was  near  Augusta,  Ga.    He  died  July  9,  1886. 

—  Avolio  :    A   Legend  of  the  Island  of  Cos,  etc.     12°,   pp.   viii,    244. 

Boston,  1860. 

—  Poems.     16°,  pp.  108.     Boston,  1855. 

Haynes,  (J.,  M.  D.)     Poems.     12°,  pp.  152.     Quebec,  1864. 

—  Savannah.     A  Poem.      12°,  pp.  48.     Savannah,  1855. 

Head,  (J.,  Jr.)  Enthusiasm.  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  Harvard,  1809.  8°, 
pp.  10.     Boston,  1809. 

Heart-Songs.      (Anon.)     12°,  pp.  144.     Boston,  1856. 

Heart,  The  City's.  (By  a  Daughter  of  New  York.  Anon.)  Sq.  18°, 
pp.  60.     New  York,  1866. 

Heavenly-  Friend,  The  ;  or.  Recollections  of  My  Minister.  A 
few  Poems  in  the  volume.      18°,  pp.  112.      Portland,  1841. 

Heavysege,  (C.)     Saul.     A  Drama.     12°,  pp.  436.     Boston,  1869. 

Hebbard,  (W.  W.)  The  Night  of  Freedom.  8°,  pp.  43.  Boston, 
1857. 

H.  (E.  D.)  (Anon.)  Temperance  Poems.  No.  II.  18°,  pp.  72. 
Philadelphia,  1844. 

Helms,  (W.T.)  Moses  Resisted.  In  12  Cantos.  12°,  pp.  129.  Nash- 
ville, 1881. 

Hedge,  (F.  H.^ 

Frederic  H.  Hedge,  son  of  Professor  Levi  Hedge,  Professor  of  Logic  and  Metaphysics 
in  Harvard  University,  was  born  at  Cambridge,  Mass.,  December  5, 1805,  pursued  his  pre- 
paratory studies  chiefly  in  Germany,  under  the  care  of  George  Bancroft.  He  graduated  at 
Harvard  in  1825,  and  was  ordained  a  L'nitarian  minister  in  1829.  In  1835  he  became  pas- 
tor of  a  church  in  Bangor,  Me.,  and  in  1850  of  the  Westminster  Church  in  Providence,  R.  I. 
In  1858  he  was  chosen  Professor  of  Ecclesiastical  History  in  the  Harvard  Divinity  School. 
His  present  residence  (188G)  is  Cambridge. 


AMERICAN    POETKY.  115 

Hedge,  (F.  H.)  —  Continued. 
—  Poems  and  Ballads  from  the  German.     Bound  with  Furness's  Song  of 
the  Bell.     8°.     Philadelphia,  1850. 

Helmek,   (C.  D.)      The  Stars  and   Strij^es.     8°,  pp.  23.     NeAv  Haven, 
1862. 

A  poem  pronounced  before  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa  Society,  Yale  College,  July  30,  1SG2. 
The  oration  of  Charles  Tracy,  Esq.,  on  "  The  True  and  the  False,"  delivered  on  the  same 
occasion,  is  bound  up  in  the  same  volume. 

Hemenway,   (Abby  M.)      Editor   of   "Poets   and  Poetry  of  Vermont." 
12°,  pp.  xii,  400.     Rutland,  1858. 

Hempstead,  (T.)     Poems.     12°,  pp.  190.     New  York,  1859. 

Henck,  (E.  C.)      Spirit  Voices  :  Odes  Dictated  by  Departed  Spirits.     18°, 
pp.  108.     Philadelphia,  1853. 
—  Same.     Philadelphia,   1855. 

Hentz,  (Mrs.  C.  L.)     De  Lara  ;  or.  The  Moorish   Bride.      A  Tragedy. 
12°,  pp.  viii,  79.     Tuscaloosa, -Ala.,  1843. 

Henderson,  (M.   A.)     The    Song  of  Milkanwatha.     3d  Edition.      12°, 
pp.  99.     Albany,  1883. 

Henry,  (G.  W.)      The  Golden  Harp;  or,  Camp-Meeting  Hymns.      18°, 
pp.  154.     New  York,  1853. 

Herbert,  (H.  AV.) 

Henry  William  Herbert,  a  son  of  the  Hon.  and  Rev.  AVilliam  Herbert,  and  a  descend- 
ant from  the  Earl  of  Pembroke  and  Percy,  was  born  in  London,  April  7,  1807,  graduated 
at  Caius  College,  Cambridge,  came  to  New  York  in  1831,  and  for  eight  years  was  principal 
Greek  teacher  in  a  Classical  Academy  in  that  city.  After  his  marriage,  in  1839,  he  took  up 
his  residence  at  "  The  Cedars,"  near  Newark,  N.  J.,  and  devoted  himself  to  literary  pur- 
suits. For  a  notice  of  his  works,  see  Allibone,  p.  830,  and  "  New  York  International 
Magazine,"  vol.  iii,  pp.  289-91.    He  died  at  New  York,  May  17, 1858. 

—  The  Prometheus  and  Agamemnon  of  ^schylus,  translated  into  Eng- 
lish Verse.      12°,  pp.  xii,  156.     Cambridge,  1849. 

Hermes,   (P.)     The   Confes.sions  of  Hermes,  etc,     8°,   pp.   153.     Phila- 
delphia, 1884. 

Herre,   (B.   G.)     Voyage   in   the   Air,  etc.      18°,  pp.  65.     Harrisburg, 
Pa.,  1870. 

Hersey,  (A.  G.)     Dew-Drops.      12°,  pp.  24.     Boston,  1836. 

18 


116  HAKllIS    COLLECTIOX. 

Heston,  (.T.  F.)     Moral   ami  Political  Truth.      12°,  pp.  401.     Philadel- 
phia,  1811. 

—  Poems  on  Political  antl   Other  Subjects.      18°,  pp.   257.     Philadel- 

phia,  1854. 
Hewett,  (J.  D.)     Tlie  Votary.     12°,  pp.  123.     New  York,  1867. 

—  Miscellaneous  Poems.      12°,  pp.  235.     Baltintore,  1838. 

—  Flora's  Festival.     A  Pastoral  Oratorio.      12°,  pp.  12. 

Sung  by  the  pupils  of  tlie  "  Baltimore  Musical  Institute,"  May  1,  1838.  No  place,  no 
date. 

Hewitt,  (Mary  E.) 

>rary  Elizabeth  Bloore  was  born  at  Maiden,  Mass.,  in  1808,  married  Mr.  James  L 
Hewitt,  of  New  York,  and  in  1854  Mr.  K.  Stebbins.  She  wrote  in  the  "  Knickei-bocker  " 
and  other  periodicals  under  the  signature  of  "  Jane."  For  criticisms  on  her  writings,  see 
Griswokl's  and  Mrs.  May's  "  Female  Poets,"  etc. 

—  Poems.     Sacred,  Passionate   and  Legendary.     16°,  pp.  196.     New 

York,  1864. 

—  The  Memorial.     AVritten  by  Friends  of  the   late  Mrs.  Osgood.     8°, 

pp.  vi,  346.     New  York,  1851. 

Heyde,    (C.   L.)      Louie  and   Marie.     A  Tale  of  the  Heart,  etc.      18°, 
pp.  88.     New  York,  1844. 

Heyes,   (H.)     Hymns,  Psalms,  etc.      18°,  pp.  123.     Albany,  1849. 

Heywood,    (J.    C.)       Antonius.       A    Dramatic   Poem.       12°,  pp.   272. 
New  York,  1867. 

—  Salome,  the    Daughter  of  Herodias.      12°,    pp.    251.      New  York, 

1862. 

—  Same.      16°,  pp.  222.     New  York,  1867. 

"  H.    G."      Horace    Greeley  at   Chappaqua.       (Anon.)       18°,   pp.   32. 
New  York,  1872. 

Hill,  (F.  S.)     The  Six  Degrees  of  Crime.     A  New  Drama.      12°,  pp. 
50.     Boston,  1856. 

—  The  Shoemaker  of  Toulouse.     A  Drama.      12°,  pp.  48.     Boston,  no 

date. 
Hill,  (G.) 

George  Hill  was  born  at  Guilford,  Conn.,  in  1790,  graduated  at  Y'ale  in  1816^  served  the 
United  States  Government  for  several  years,  entered  the  Xavy,in  1827,  as  teacher  of  Math- 
ematics, was  Librarian  of  the  State  Department  at  Washington  1831-55,  and  for  a  time 
United  States  Consul  for  the  southern  portion  of  Asia  Minor.  The  closing  years  of  his 
life  were  spent  in^his  native  town.    He  died  in  St.  Vincent  Hospital,  New  Y'ork,  in  1871. 


AMEEICAX    POETRY.  117 

Hill,  (G.)  — ;  Continued. 

—  Ruins  of  Athens,  etc.     8°,  pp.  160.     Boston,  1839. 

Hill,  (T.)      Christmas,    and    Poems    on  Shivery   for    Christmas,   1843. 
12%  pp.  16.      Cambridge,  1843. 

—  Poetical  Works.     Vol.  I.      12°,  pp.  32.     "Worcester,  1851. 

Hill,  (T.  H.)     Hesper,  etc.     16°,  pp.  96.     Ealeigh,  1861. 

Hill,  (W.)      The  Rise  and  Fall  of  the   Jews.     32°,  pp.  40.     Albany, 
1859. 

HiLLARD,  (I.)     Poetical  History  of  Fragments.     12°,  pp.  84.     Danbmy, 
Conn.,  1803. 

HiLLER,  (O.  P.)     American  Lyrics.      12°,  pp.  80.     Boston,  1860. 

HlLLHOUSE,    (J.  A.) 

James  Abraham  Hillhouse  was  born  at  New  Haven,  Conn.,  September  26, 1780,  grad- 
uated at  Yale  College  in  ISOS.  For  a  time  he  resided  in  Boston,  and  after  the  war  of  1812 
removed  to  New  York,  and  was  actively  engaged  in  commerce  for  several  years.  Shortly 
after  his  marriage,  in  1824,  he  took  up  his  residence  at  "  Sachem's  Wood,"  near  New 
Haven,  and  as  "  a  man  of  letters  "  devoted  himself  to  literary  pursuits.  He  died  January 
4,  1841. 

—  Di'amas,  Discom'ses,  and   other  Pieces.     2  vols.      12°,  pp.  xiv,  296, 

247.     Boston,  1839. 

—  Hadad.     A  Dramatic  Poem.     8°,  pp.  x,  208.     New  York,  1825. 

—  Sachem's  AYood.     A  Short  Poem.     8°,  pp.  30.     New  Haven,  1838. 

—  The  Judgment.     8°,  pp.  46.     New  York,  1821. 

"  This  poem  was  rewarded,  shortly  after  its  appearance,  by  the  enthusiastic  commen- 
dation of  one  of  the  most  accomplished  of  English  critics." 

HiNE,  (B.)     Miscellaneous  Poetry;  or.  The  Farmer's  Muse.      12,  pp.  x, 
273.     New  York,  1835. 

HiNE,  (C.  C.)     A  Legend  of  Chicago.     Mrs.  Leary's  Cow.     8°,  pp.  14. 
New  York,  1872. 

A  poetical  account  of  the  cause  of  the  great  Chicago  lire,  October  8,  1871. 

HiNE,  (E.  C.)     The  Haunted  Barque   and   other  Poems.     8°,  pp.   109. 
Auburn,  1848. 

"  Most  of  the  poems  in  this  volume  were  composed  at  sea,  wliile  the  author  was 
attached  to  an  American  frigate  cruising  in  the  Pacific  ocean,  to  wliile  away  the  tedious 
hours,  monotony  and  enmd  of  a  life  on  board  a  ship-of-war." 


118  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

Hirst,  (H.  B.) 

Henry  R.  Hirst  was  born  at  riiiliidelpliiii,  August  '^3,  ISi:!,  was  lulmitted  to  the  bar  in 
1843.  "  The  Coming  of  Mammoth  "  was  originally  published  in  "  Graham's  Magazine." 
Among  his  other  writings  are  "  Endymion,  a  Tale  of  Greece,"  in  Four  Cantos,  and  "The 
Penance  of  Roland,"  a  Romance. 

—  Endymion.     A  Tale  of  Greece.     12°,  pp.  122.     Boston,  1848. 

—  The  Coming  of  Mammoth,  etc.      12°,  pp.  168.     Boston,  1845. 

—  The  Penance  of  KoUind.     A  Romance  of  the  Peine  Fort  ct  Dm-e,  etc. 

12°,  pp.  128.     Boston,  1849. 

—  A  Poetical  Dictionary  ;  or,  Popular  Terms.     Illustrated  in  Ehyme. 

12°,  pp.  vi,  113.     Lenox,  Mass.,  1808. 

Hitchcock,  (D.) 

David  Hitchcock  was  born  at  Bethlehem,  Litchtield  county.  Conn.,  in  1773.  He  worked 
at  farming  and  shoe  making  most  of  his  life,  and  was  always  in  straitened  circumstances. 
The  date  of  his  death  is  not  given. 

—  Christ  not  the  Minister  of  Sin.     A  Dialogue  between  a  Universalist 

and  his  Neighbor.     12°,  pp.  35.     Hartford,  1832. 

—  The  Shade  of  Plato,  etc.      18°,  pp.  107.     Hudson,  1805. 

Duyckinck  says  :  "  '  The  Shade  of  Plato  '  is  certainly  a  remarkable  production  under 
the  circumstances,  to  have  been  hammered  out  between  the  blows  of  the  lapstone." 

—  The  Social  Monitor.     16°,  pp.  v,  158.     Stockbridge,  Mass.,  1812. 

Hodges,  (Laura  Jane.)     Panorama  of  the  Heai-t ;  or.  The  Four  Prayers 
of  Life.      12°,  pp.  12.     Worcester,  1870. 

HoDGKixs,  (T.  G)     Time  on  the  Iron  Horse.     12°,  pp.  12.     New  York, 
1847. 

HODSON,  (J.)     Miscellaneous  Poems,  in  2  vols.     Vol.  I.      18°,  pp.  151. 
Wellesville,  Ohio,  1866. 

HoEY,  (G.)      Mary  Leigh.     8°,  pp.  12.     New  York,  1874. 

Hoffman,  (C.  F.) 

Charles  Fenno  Hoffman  was  born  in  the  city  of  New  York  in  ISOfi,  entered  Columbia 
College  at  the  age  of  fifteen,  and  was  admitted  to  the  New  York  bar  at  twenty-oue.  Lit- 
erary pursuits  having  for  him  greater  attractions  than  the  practice  of  his  profession,  he 
decided  to  devote  himself  to  letters.  In  1849  his  mind  became  deranged,  and  he  was 
forced  to  retire  from  the  work.    He  died  at  Harrisburg,  Pa.,  in  1884. 

—  Love's  Calendar,  etc.     24°,  pp.  221.     New  York,  1847. 

—  The  Echo.     8°,  pp.  48.     New  York,  1844. 

—  The  Vigil  of  Faith,  etc.      12°,  pp.  84.     New  York,  1842. 

—  Same.     4th  Edition.      18°,  pp.  164.     New  York,  1845. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  119 

Hogg,  (E.)     The  Lay  of  the  Fh-st  Minstrel,  etc.     12°,  pp.  iv,  46.    New 
York,  1834. 

HoLCO.MBE,  (W.  H.,  M.  D.)     Poems.     12°,   pp.   x,  360.      Ncav  York, 
1860. 

HoLDEN,  (O.)     Sacred  Dirges,  etc.       Commemoration   of  the  Death  of 
General  George  "Washington.     Lg.  8°,  pp.  24.     Boston,  1800. 

Holiday  Exercises  ;  or.  The  Christian  A,  B,  C.     12°,  pp.  36.    Phila- 
delphia, 1785. 

Holland,  (E.  G.) 

Elihu  G.  Holland  was  born  at  Solon,  Cortlandt  county,  N.  Y.,  April  14, 1817,  and  was 
the  author  of  "  The  Being  of  God,"  etc.,  1846,  and  "  Memoir  of  Rev.  Joseph  Badger," 
1853. 

—  The  Highland  Treason.      A  Drama,  bound  in  a  volume  containing 

Essays.     12°,  pp.  152.     Boston,  1852. 

Holland,  (J.  G.) 

Josiah  Gilbert  Holland,  M.  D.,  was  born  at  Belchertown,  Mass.,  July  24,  1819,  devoted 
himself  to  journalism,  having  been  connected  with  the  Springfield  lieptihlican  seventeen 
years,  1849-66,  and  was  editior  of"  Scribner's  Monthly  "  eleven  years,  18"0-81,  and  died  in 
New  York  City  in  1881.  For  a  discriminating  article  on  Dr.  Holland,  see  "  The  Nation," 
October  20,  1881. 

—  Bitter  Sweet.     lg°,  pp.  220.     New  York,  1859. 

—  Poems.     12°,  pp.  108.     Boston,  1858. 

—  Same.     With  illustrations  by  E.  J.  Whitney.      12°,  pp.  208.     New 

York,  1863. 

—  Same.     15th  Edition.      12°,  pp.  220.     New  York,  1863. 

—  Kathrina;  Her  Life  and   Mine.     20th  Edition.      12°.     New  York, 

1867. 

—  The  Marble  Prophecy,  etc.      12°,  pp.  iv,  112.     New  York,  1872. 

—  The  Mistress  of  the  Manse.     12°,  pp.  187.     New  York,  1881. 

HoLLiSTER,  (G.  H.)     Senior  Class  Poem,  Yale,  July  1,  1840.      8°,  pp. 
15.     New  Haven,  1840. 

HoLLOWAY,  (W.)     The  Peasant's  Fate,  etc.       12°,  pp.  x,  128.       Wil- 
mington, 1803. 

Holmes,  (Alice  A.)  ' 

Alice  Holmes  was  born  in  the  county  of  Norfolk,  England,  in  February,  1821,  .and 
came  to  the  United  States  In  1830.  On  the  passage  over  she  had  the  small-pox  and  was  left 
blind  by  the  disease.    In  1837  she  became  an  inmate  of  the  "  New  York  Institution  for  the 


120 


IIAKKIS    COLLECTION 


Holmes,  (Alice  A.)  —  Continued. 

Blind,"  where  slie  remained  seven  years.  After  leaving  the  institution  she  was  enabled 
to  gain  a  precarious  livelihood  by  means  of  plain  sewing  and  other  handiwork.  "  To 
poetry  she  only  turned  us  a  solace  in  her  darker  hours." 

—  Arcadian  Leaves.     18°,  pp.  122.     New  York,  1858. 

—  Poems.     12°,  pp.  x,  53.     New  York,  1849. 

—  Stray  Leaves.      12°,  pp.  60.     New  Y'ork,  1868. 

Holmes,  (0.  W.) 

Oliver  Wendell  Holmes,  M.  L).,  son  of  Uev.  Dr.  Abiel  Holmes,  was  born  at  Cambridge, 
August  29,  1S09,  graduated  at  Harvard  University  in  1S29,  studied  law  for  a  year  and  a 
half,  and  then  decided  to  study  medicine,  was  in  Europe  between  two  and  three  years,  his 
time  being  occupied  chiefly  in  the  hospitals  of  Paris,  took  his  medical  degree  at  Cambridge 
in  1830,  was  elected  Professor  of  Anatomy  and  Physiology  in  Dartmouth  College  in  1838, 
and  to  the  same  otfice  in  the  Harvard  Medical  school  in  1847,  relinquishing  general  prac- 
tice in  1849.  Since  1882  he  has  been  Professor  Emeritus.  For  a  fuller  sketch  of  his  life 
•     and  of  his  works  than  can  be  given  in  this  note,  see  Allibone,  pp.  868-70. 

—  Astrea  :     The  Balance  of  Illusions.       Phi  Beta  Kappa,  Yale,  August 

14,  1850.     12°,  pp.  39.     Boston,  1850. 

—  Grandmother's  Story  of  Bunker  Hill  Battle.     4°,  pp.  16.     Boston, 

1875. 

—  Poem  at  the  Dinner  given  to  Prince  Napoleon,  Boston,  September 

25,  1861.     8°,  pp.  2.     Bound  Avith  the  address  of  Edward  Everett. 
Cambridge,  privately  printed,  1861.  .j, 

—  Poem.     Dedication  of  Pittsfield  Cemetery,  September  9,  1850.       8°, 

pp.  8.     No  place. 

—  Poems.     12°,  pp.  xiv,  163.     Boston,  1836. 

—  Same.     12°,  pp.  xx,  175.     London,  1846. 
New  and   enlarged  Edition.       12° 


—  Same. 

1849. 

—  Same. 

—  Same. 

—  Same. 

—  Same. 

—  Same. 

—  Same. 


pp.  vi,  212.      Boston, 


pp. 
pp. 
pp. 

18" 
18^ 
18^ 


286.     1850. 

286.     1851. 

286.     1858. 

,  pp.  410.  Boston,  1864. 
,  pp.  410.  Boston,  1866. 
,  pp.  410.  Boston,  1869. 
12°,  pp.  X,  308. 


410 
410, 

—  Songs  in  Many  Keys.      12°,  pp.  x,  308.     Boston,  1862. 

The  author's  presentation  copy  to  Richard  Grant  White. 

—  Urania.     8°,  pp.  31.     Boston,  1846. 

Home  Ballads.     By  Our  Home  Poets.     18°,  pp.  96.     New  York,  1865. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  121 

Honey  WOOD,  (St.  J.)     Poems.     12°.     New  York,  1801. 

Hood,  (C.)  Gonzaloo  ;  or,  The  Fall  of  Grenada.  12°,  pp.  377.  Bos- 
ton, 1845. 

Hood,  (C.)  Poem  at  the  Dedication  of  the  Dorchester  High  School, 
December  7,  1852.     8°,  pp.  12.     Boston,  1852. 

HooPKR,  (Lucy.) 

Lucy  Hooper  was  born  at  Newburyport,  Mass.,  February  4,  1816,  and  removed  in  1831 
to  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  which  was  Iier  residence  till  her  death.  Soon  after  her  removal  to 
Brooklyn  she  became  an  occasional  contributor  to  the  columns  of  the  Lonff  Island  Star, 
under  the  signature  of  her  initials,  "  L.  H,"  her  articles  attracting  attention  by  their  merit. 
Among  her  published  writings  were  "  Scenes  from  Real  Life,"  "  Essay  on  Domestic 
Happiness,"  and  "  The  Poetry  of  Flowers."    She  died  August  1,  1841. 

—  Complete  Poetical  Works.     8°,  pp.  404.     New  York,  1848. 

—  Poetical  Remains.     Collected  by  John  Keese.      12°,  pp.  291.     New 

York,  1842. 

—  The  Lady's  Book  of  Flowers  and  Poetry.      12°,  pp.  263.     New  York, 

1842. 

—  Same.      1843. 

Hooper,  (Lucy  H.)     Poems.      With  Translations  from  the  German  of 

Geiber,  etc.     18°,  pp.  96.     Philadelphia,  1864. 
Hooper,  (R.)     Class  Poem,  Harvard,  1811.     Songs  by  Edward  Everett 

and  N.  L.  Frothingham  are  in  the  volume.     Also,  Oration  by  John 

T.  Cooper.      12°,  pp.  24.     Cambridge,  1811. 
Hope,  (J.  B.)     A  Collection  of  Poems.     12°,  pp.  139.     Richmond,  Va., 

1869. 

—  A  Poem  pronounced  on   the  250th  Anniversary  of  the  Settlement  of 

Jamestown,  Va.     8°,  pp.  16.     Richmond,  1857. 

—  Elegaic  Ode.     On  the  occasion  of  completing  the  Monument  erected 

over  the  remains  of  Ann  Carter  Lee.      12°,  pp.   29.     Richmond, 
1866. 

—  Leoni  di  Monota,  etc.     12°,  pp.  226.     Philadelphia,   1857. 
Hopkins,  (J.  H.,  D.  D.,  LL.  D.) 

John  Henry  Hopkins  was  born  at  Dublin,  Ireland,  .January  30,  1792,  came  to  this 
country  in  1800,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  at  Pittsburg,  Pa.,  in  1818,  subsequently  studied 
for  the  ministry,  became  Rector  of  Trinity  Church,  Pittsburg,  in  1824,  assistant  Rector 
of  Trinity,  Boston,  in  1831,  and  in  1832  was  consecrated  the  first  Bishop  of  Vermont.  A 
strong  High-churchman.    He  died  January  9,  1868. 

—  The  History  of  the  Church  in  verse.       12°,    pp.    256.       New  York, 

1867. 


122  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

Hopkins,  (J.  S.)     The  Poetical  Works  of.     12°,   pp.   215.     Baltimore, 
1842. 

Hopkins,  (L.) 

Lemuel  Hopkins,  M.  D.,  was  born  at  Waterbury,  Conn.,  June  19,  1750,  was  a  physician 
in  LitchtieUl,  1770-84,  and  in  Hartford,  1784-lSOl.  He  died  in  the  latter  year,  April  14.  He 
was  the  literary  associate  of  Trumbull,  Rarlow,  Huniplirey,  Dwight,  and  others. 

—  The  Democratiad.     A    Poem  in  Retaliation  for  the    "Philadelphia 

Jockey  Club."      12°,  pp.  iv,  22.     Philadelphia,  1796. 

—  The  Guillotina  ;  or,  A  Democratic  Dirge.     8°,  pp.  14.     Philadelphia, 

no  date. 

HOPKINSON,   (F.) 

Francis  Hopkinson  was  born  at  Philadelphia  in  1737,  and  educated  at  what  is  now 
the  University  of  Pennsylvania.  Subsequently  he  studied  law.  He  was  one  of  the  signers 
of  the  Declaration  of  Independence,  and  held  high  civil  offices  under  the  government.  He 
died  May'.),  ]71»1. 

— Miscellaneous  Works,   in   which   are  several  Poems.       8°.       3  vols. 
Philadelphia,  1792. 

—  Poems  on  several  Subjects.     8°,  pp.  204.     No  place,  no  date. 

—  The  Battle  of  the  Kegs.     Lg.  8°,  not  paged.     No  place. 

100  copies  in  the  edition.    18  Lg.,  82  Sm. 

Hopper,  (E.)     Old  Horse  Gray,  and  The  Parish  of  Grumbleton.      12°, 
pp.  82.     New  York,  1869. 

—  One  Wife  Too  Many  ;  or,  Rip  Van  Bigham.    A  Tale  of  Tappan  Zee. 

12°,  pp.  262.     New  York,  1867. 

—  The  Dutch  Pilgrim   Fathers,    etc.      12°,  pp.   vi,   216.     New  York, 

1865. 

—  The  Fire  on  the  Hearth   in   Sleepy  Hollow.      12°,  pp.    105.     New 

York,  1864. 

HoppiN,  (A.)     Carrot-Pomade.     With  twenty-six  illustrations.     8°,  not 
paged.     New  York. 

Horace,  Imitations  of.      (Anon.)     18°,  pp.  46.     Albany,  no  date. 

HoRNE,  (A.  G.,  M.  P.,  pseud.)     The  New  Temple  of  Ceres.     8°,  pp.  15. 

Horner,  (J.  M.)     The  Rights  of  Adopted  Citizens.     12°,  pp.  24.     New 
York,  1844. 

Horner,  (S.  S.)    Thoughts  in  Verse.     2d  Edition.     12°,  pp.  130.    Paris, 
1864. 


AMERICAX    POETRY.  123 

Horse-Car  Poetry.     (Anon.)      18°,  pp.  14.     New  York,  1876. 

HoRSFORD,  (Mary  G.)  Indian  Legends,  etc,  12°,  pp.  viii,  167.  New 
York,  1855. 

HoRTON,  (Mary  L.)  Poetical  and  Prose  Compositions.  18°,  pp.  88. 
Salem,  1832. 

HoRTON,  (F.)  Memorials  of  Brookfield,  Mass.  8°,  pp.  20.  Springfield, 
1868. 

This  poem  was  delivered  by  Rev.  F.  Horton,  October  16,  186/,  at  the  loOth  Anniver- 
sary of  the  West  Brookfield  Congregational  Church. 

—  Temperance  Poem.     Brookfield,  Mass.,  January,  1833.     12°,  pp.  40. 

Brookfield,  1833. 

HOSMER,    (W.  H.  C.) 

William  Henry  Cuyler  Hosmer  was  born  at  Avon,  X.  Y.,  May  25,  1814,  graduated  at 
Genesee  College,  practiced  law  In  Avon,  moved  to  New  Y'ork  in  1854,  where  for  a  number 
of  years  he  held  an  office  in  the  Custom  House.    He  died  in  his  native  town,  3Iay  23,  1877. 

—  Later  Lays  and  Lyrics.     12°,  pp.  168.     Rochester,  N.  Y.,  1873. 

—  Poetical  Works.     2  vols.     12°,  pp.  ix,  374,  377.     New  York,  1854. 

—  The  Months.     12°,  pp.  71.     Boston,  1847. 

—  Yonnondio  ;  or,  "Warriors  of  the  Genesee.     A  Tale  of  the  17th  Cen- 

tury.    12°,  pp.  vi,  239.     New  York,  1844. 

HosMOT,  (H.)  The  Saturniad :  Being  a  full  and  true  account  of  the 
Rise,  Progress,  and  Downfall  of  the  University  of  Quillsyvane. 
18°,  pp.  63.     Philadelphia,  1832. 

Hough,  (G.  W.)     Puritan.     12°,  pp.  94.     Cincinnati,  1868. 

Hough,  (L.  S.)     The  Wanderer."     18°,  pp.  64.     Cleveland,  1847. 

Houghton,  (G.)     Niagara,  etc.     18°,  pp.  130.     Boston,  1882. 

—  The  Legend  of  St.  Olaf  s  Kirk.     Sm.  4°,  pp.  64.     Boston,  1880. 

—  Same.     2d  Edition.     Sq.  18°,  pp.  92.     Boston,  1881. 

Hours  OF  Childhood,  ETC.     (Anon.)     18°,  pp.  vi,  94.     Montreal,  1820. 

HoLTis,  The,  OF  Childhood.      (Anon.)     12°,  pp.  24.    New  York,  1837. 

House,  The,  That  Jeff  Built.  (Anon.)  8°,  pp.  16.  New  York, 
1868. 

House,  The,  That  Jonathan  Built.      A  Poetical  Primer   for  1832. 
(Anon.)     8°,  pp.  16.     Philadelphia. 
19 


124  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

House,  The,  That  Old   Nick  Built.     (Auou.)     16°,  pp.  10.     Balti- 
more, 1834. 

House.  The,  That  Tweed  Built.     (Anon.)     8°,  pp.   23.     New  York, 
no  date. 

How,  (H.  K.)      The  Battle  of  Trenton.     8°,  pp.  15.     New  Brunswick, 

N.  J.,  18G5. 

HoAv  Little  Katie  Knocked  at  the  Door    of   Heaven.     (By  Aunt 
Fanuy,  pseud.)      18°,  pp.  15.     New  York,  1864. 

How  TO  Try  a  Lover.      A  Comedy.       (Anon.)      18°,  pp.  67.      New 
York,  1817. 

Howard  Hynes  ;  or.  The  Enthusiast  of  Nature,  etc.     (By  Fulker- 
son,  the  Eccentric,  pseud  f)     12°,  pp.  192.     Louisville,  1831. 

Howarth,  (Ellen  C.)     Poems.     18°,  pp.  112.     Newark,  N.  J.,  1868. 

—  The  "VYind  Harp,  etc.      12°,  pp.  244.     Philadelphia,  1864. 

Howe,  (J.  B.)     The  British  Slave.      12°,  pp.  43.     Boston,  no  date. 

—  "\Yoman  of  the  World,  The.      12°,  pp.  36.     New  York,  no  date. 

HoAVE,  (Mrs.  Julia  Ward.) 

Julia  Wai'd  was  the  daughter  of  Samuel  Ward,  the  eminent  banlcer  of  New  Yorlc,  and 
was  born  in  1819.  Her  mother  was  Julia  Rush  Cutler,  of  Boston,  the  maternal  ancestors 
of  Miss  C.  being  natives  of  South  Carolina,  and  her  grandmother,  the  only  sister  of  the 
famous'  General  Marion.  The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  married  in  184.S  to  the  distin- 
guished philanthropist.  Dr.  Samuel  G.  Howe.    Her  poems  have  been  warmly  commended. 

—  Leonore.     A  Tragedy.     8°,  pp.  63.     New  York,  1857. 

—  Passion  Flowers.      16°,  pp.  iv,  186.     Boston,  1854. 

—  The  Golden  Eagle;  or.  The  Privateer  of  '76.     A  National  Drama. 

12°,  pp.  37.     New  York,  no  date. 

—  The  AVorld's  Own.      12°,  pp.  141.     Boston,  1857. 

—  AVords  for  the  Hour.      16°,  pp.  iv,  165.     Boston,  1857. 

Howell,  (J.  E.)     Poems  in   2  vols.     12°,  pp.  862,  514.     New  York, 

1857. 
Howland,  (A.)     Rhode  Island  Tales.     Sq.  18°,  pp.  171.      New  York, 

1839. 

HOYT,  (R.) 

Rev.  Ralph  Hoyt  was  born  in  the  city  of  New  Y'oVk  and  became  Rector  of  the  Clmrch 
of  the  Good  Shepherd  in  that  city.  He  devoted  himself  with  great  earnestness  and  self- 
denial  to  his  ministerial  work. 


AMERICAN    POETEY.  125 

HOYT,  (R.)  —  Continued. 

—  Chaiint  of  Life,  etc.,  in  Six  Parts.     Part  I.     8°,  pp.  32.     New  York, 

1844. 

—  Same.     Part  II.     New  York,  1845. 

—  Echoes  of  Memory  and  Emotion.      12°,  pp.   167.     New  York  and 

London,  1859. 

—  Same.      1862. 

—  Sketches  of  Life  and  Landscape.     Julia,  etc.     8°,  not  paged.     New 

York,  1847-48. 

—  Same.     New  Edition.      12°,  pp.  134.     New  York,  1849. 

—  The  True  Life.     8°,  pp.  15.     Hartford,  1849. 

HrBBARD,  (H.)     Ixion,  etc.     12°,  pp.  viii,  165.     Boston,  1852. 

Hubbard,  (S.)     The  New  Temperance  Melodist.     12°,  pp.  152.     Bos- 
ton, 1859. 

HUBBELL,    (M.  E.) 

Mary  Elizabeth  Hubbell  was  born  at  Hamden,  Conn.,  December  5,  1833,  her  father, 
Rev.  Stephen  Hubbell,  being  tlie  minister  of  the  parish  of  Mt.  Carmel  in  that  town.  The 
closing  years  of  her  educational  life  were  spent  in  Ipswich,  Mass.,  and  New  Haven.  In 
1851  she  became  an  assistant  teacher  in  a  Young  Ladies'  school  in  New  Haven,  where  she 
remained  one  year,  and  then  accepted  an  appointment  as  principal  English  teacher  in  a 
school  in  Baltimore.  She  died  of  consumption  at  North  Stonington,  Conn.,  June  10,  1854. 
The  poems  in  the  volume  are  pp.  207-57. 

—  Prose  and  Poetical  Writings,  in  a  Memorial  by  her  Mother.       12°, 

pp.  384.     Boston,  1857. 

HuBER,  (S.)     The  Rose  of  Innichen;  or.  The  Tailor  and  Barber.       12°, 
pp.  23.     Philadelphia,  1870. 

Hebner,  (C.  "W.)       Poems    and  Essays.       12°,  pp.   172.       New  York, 
1881. 

Hudson,  (H.  R.)     Poems.     12°,  pp.  214.     Boston,  1874. 

HuERTA  de  la,  (J.  G.)     La  Aurora,  etc.     18°,  pp.  153.    Mexico,  1869. 

HuGGiNS,  (J.  R.  D.)     Huggiana.     12°,  pp.  viii,  288.     New  York,  1808. 

HuLBERT,  (F.  R.)     "Wandering  Strains.     8°,  pp  52.      New  Yoi-k,  1850. 

Hull,  (J.)     What  I  Know  of  Farming.     Founded  on  the  Experience  of 
Horace  Greeley.      12°,  pp.  14.     New  York,  1871. 

Humboldt,  (G.)     Poems  and  Letters.     12°,  pp.  x,  252.     Albany,  1857. 


12G  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

Humbugs,  The  Age  of.  The  Grand  Touv,  etc.  By  the  author  of  the 
"  Snowy  Daughter."  (Anon.)  16°,  pp.  52.  Wheeling,  Va., 
1837. 

Humorist,  The.  From  June  21  to  August  9,  1834.  4°,  not  paged. 
New  York. 

Humphreys,  (D.) 

David  Humphreys  was  born  at  Derby,  Conn.,  in  1753,  educated  at  Tale  College,  was 
attached  as  Major  to  Putnam's  staff,  subsequently  was  on  Washington's  staff,  and  for 
several  years  sustained  most  intimate  relations  with  him.  In  1784  he  was  appointed  Sec- 
retary of  Legation,  and  was  abroad  two  years.  In  1794  he  was  sent  as  United  States 
Ambassador  to  Lisbon,  and  in  1797  became  Minister  to  the  Court  of  Spain.  He  was  a 
somewhat  voluminous  writer,  and  the  productions  of  his  pen  were  popular  in  his  day.  He 
died  in  ISIS. 

—  A  Poem  on  Industry.     8°.     Philadelphia,  1794. 

—  A  Poem  Addressed  to  the  Armies  of  the  United  vStates.     8°,  pp.  28. 

New  Haven,   1784.      Paris,   reprinted   1785,   and  London,   same 
year. 

—  A  Poem  on  the   Happiness  of  America.     Sm.  4°,  pp.  51.     London 

and  Hai'tford,  1786. 

—  Miscellaneous  Works.     8°,  pp.  348.     New  York,  1790. 

—  Same.      12°.     Portsmouth,  1790. 

—  Same.     8°,  pp.  294.     New  York,  1804. 

Hunker  Lament.     (Anon.)     12°,  pp.  24.     Concord,  1855. 

Hunt,  (C.  M.)     Greenbacks  and  Tin.     8°,  pp.  12.     Washington,  1864; 

Hunt,  (J.,  M.  D.)  Hours  of  Reflection.  16°,  pp.  324.  No  place, 
1845.  • 

Huntington,  (D.)  Pleasures  and  Advantages  of  True  Religion.  United 
Brothers'  Society  Poem,  Brown  Univer.sity,  August  31,  1819.  12°, 
pp.  23.     Providence,  1819. 

—  Same.     Boston,  1830. 

HuTiTiNGTON,  (G.)  The  Guests  of  Brazil;  or.  The  Martyrdom  of 
Frederic.      12°,  pp.  70.     New  York,  1844. 

—  The  Shadowy  Land,  etc.     8°,  pp.  506.     New  York,  1860. 

Huntington,  (J.,  Rev.  AND  M.  D.)  Poems-.  12°,  pp.  231.  New  York, 
1843. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  127 

HUKTINGTOX,    (J.  V.) 

Jedediah  Vincent  Huntington,  M.  D.,  was  born  in  tlie  city  of  Xew  York,  January  20, 
1815,  graduated  at  the  New  York  University  in  1835,  received  M.  D.  at  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania,  took  orders  in  the  Episcopal  Church,  subsequently  became  a  Roman  Catho- 
lic, and  as  a  journalist  was  devoted  to  Roman  Catholic  interests.  He  died  at  Pau,  France, 
March  10,  1862. 

—  America  Discovered.     A  Poem  Delivered  before  the  Association  of 

Alumni  of  the  University  of  the  City  of  New  York,  June  29,  1852. 
12°,  pp.  xi,  32.     New  York,  1852. 

Huntley,  (L.)      Moral  Pieces.     12°,  pp.  xii.     Hartford,  1815. 

HuRLBUT,  (W.  H.)  Weahh  and  Beauty.  Phi  Beta  Kappa  Poem,  Har- 
vard, July  19,  1855.      12°,  pp.  31.     Cambridge,  1855. 

Husband  vs.  Wife.  With  designs  by  A.  Hoppin.  12°,  pp.  44.  New 
York,  1858. 

HuTTON,  (F.  R.)  Seventy-Three,  Junior  Class  Poem,  Cohuiibia  Col- 
lege.    8°,  pp.  4.     New  York,  1872. 

HuTTON,  (I.  G.)  The  Yigneron  ;  The  Culture  of  the  Grape,  etc.  18°, 
pp.  60.     Washington,  1827. 

HuTTON,  (J.)     Leisure  Hours.     18°,  pp.  305.     Philadelphia,  1812. 

—  School  for  Prodigals.     A  Comedy.      18°,  pp.  62.     New  York,  1809. 

Hyde,  (Nancy  Maria.) 

Miss  Hyde  was  born  at  Norwich,  Conn,  March  1,  1792,  and  early  in  life  developed 
poetic  talent.  She  died  March  26,  1816.  The  volume  of  which  the  title  is  here  consists 
chiefly  of  her  Journal  and  Letters. 

—  Writings  of.     A  few  Poems   in   the  volume.      12°,   pp.    252.     Nor- 

wich, 1816. 

Hyer,  (W.  G.)  Rosa.  A  Melo-Drama.  12°,  pp.  44.  New  York, 
1822. 

Hymns,  etc.      Collected.     (Anon.)      24°,  pp.   182.      Newport,   R.   I., 

1766. 
Hymns  AND  Poems.      (Anon.)      In  j^setid.     William  Durkee.)     Sq.  24°, 

pp.  90.     Baltimore,  1790. 

Hymns  and  Sacred  Songs.     (Anon.)     12°,  pp.  106.     Audover,  1823. 

This  collection  was  made  by  the  late  Rev.  Leonard  Bacon,  D.  D.,  of  New  Haven. 

Hymns  and  Twilight  Stories.  By  Cousin  Hattie.  (Anon.)  Sq.  24°, 
pp.  64.     Boston,   1852. 


128  II AKRIS    COLLECTION. 

Hymns,  Ciikrokee.     Compiled   bv  S.  A.  AVorccstev   and  E.  Boudhiot. 
4t]i  Edition.     24°,  pp.  46.     New  Echota,  1833. 

Hymn  Book,  Choctaw.     3d  Edition.     (Anon.)     24°,    pp.   172.      Bos- 
ton, 1844. 

Hymns  Exhibiting  the  Christian's  Duty.    Recommended  by  the  Frater- 
nity of  Baptists.     3d  Edition.     18°,  pp.  331.     Philadelphia,  1813. 

—  Same.     Germantown,  1825. 

Hymns  for  Lutheran  Church.     (Anon.)     32°,  pp.  344.     Hagerstown, 
1822. 

Hymns  for  Open-Air  Meetings  in  Bloomfield,  N.  J.     (Anon.)     24°, 
not  paged.     No  place,  1873. 

Hymns,  Original,   for  Sabbath  Schools.     (J.  S.  W.)     18°,  pp.  96. 
Boston,  1833. 

Hymns   for   Universalist   Churches.      2d    Edition.      18°,    pp.    360. 
Charlestown,  Mass.,  1810. 

—  Same.     By  Sebastian  Streeter  and   Russell   Streeter.     9th  Edition. 

Boston,  1833. 

Hymns,  German  AND  English.     32°.     German,  pp.115.     English,  pp. 
41.     Ephrata,  Pa.,  1858. 

Mr.  Harris  makes  the  following  note :  "  The  Ephrata  press  was  for  some  time  on 
storage  with  J.  E.  Pfautz,  a  farmer  at  or  near  Ephrata,  and  whilst  in  his  hands  he  printed 
this  book.    It  was  the  last  thing  printed  on  the  press." 

Pfautz  Avas  not  a  professional  printer.  The  Pre.ss  is  now  in  the  rooms  of  the  Penn- 
sylvania  Historical  Society. 

—  Gospel.     Bliss  and  Sankey.     24°,  pp.  96.     New  York,  etc.,  no  date. 

—  Illustrative  of  the  Life  of  a  Christian  Child.     18°,  pp.  54.     New  York, 

1858. 

—  Methodist.     Selected  by  Peggy  Dow.     2d  Edition.     24°,  pp.   128. 

Philadelphia,  1816. 

A  perfect  copy.    Bedford's  binding. 

—  Of  the  Ages.     Second  Series.     12°,  pp.  vii,  336.     Boston,  1861. 

—  Same.     Third  Series.     Compiled  by  C.   S.   H.    and   A.   E.   G.,  of 

Roxbury,  Mass.     12°,  pp.  iv,  331.     Boston,  1865, 

—  On  Various  Subjects.      (Anna  Beeman,  etc.)     Imperfect.     Noplace, 

no  date. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  129 

Hymns. — Continued. 

—  Selection  of.      (Anon.)      24%  pp.  207.     Brooklyn,  1817. 

—  Social,  for  the  Use  of  the  Friends  of  Universal  Reform.      (Anon.) 

18°,  pp.  32.     Boston,  1843. 

—  Sung  in   Drama  of  Uncle  Tom's  Cabin  by  Cordelia   Howard.     24°, 

pp.  G.     New  York,  no  date. 

—  The  Hartford   Selection.     Compiled  by  Rev.  Messrs.   Strong,  Flint 

and  Steward,     oth  Edition.     24°,  pp.  359.     Hartford,  1816. 

HrNEMAN,    (Mrs.    Rebekah.)      The   Leper,   etc.     12°,    pp.   viii,   216. 
Philadelphia,  1853. 

Ida.     (Anon.)      12°,  pp.  m.     Boston,  1851. 

—  Same.      12°,  pp.  69.     Philadelphia,  1857. 

Idealika,  ETC.      (By  Harry  Quillem,  jjise/icZ.)      12°,  pp.  123.     San  Fran- 
cisco, 1853. 

Ideals,   and   Other   Poems.     (By   Algernon,   pseud.)     12°,   pp.    102. 
Philadelphia,  1842. 

I   Dine  with   My  Mother.      A   Comedietta.      (Anon.)      12°,  pp.   15. 
New  York,  no  date. 

Infidelity,  The  Triumph  op.     8°,  pp.  40.     No  place,  1788. 

The  author's  name,  Timothy  Dwight,  not  on  title-page. 

Ingersol,  (C.  J.) 

Charles  Jared  Ingersoll  was  born  at  Philadelphia,  October  3,  1782,  received  a  liberal 
education,  elected  Representative  to  Congress  in  1812,  and,  for  the  greater  part  of  his  life, 
was  devoted  to  the  public  service.  He  was  a  voluminous  writer  on  political  subjects.  He 
died  January  H,  1802. 

—  Edwy  and    Elgiva.     A  Tragedy  in  Five  Acts.     8°,  pp.  84.     Phila- 

delphia, 1801. 

Innocent  Poetry.     (Anon.)      18°,  pp.  104.     New  York,  no  date. 

Intemperance,  Evils  of.     (Anon.)     16°,  pp.  24.     Boston,  1829. 

looR,  (W.)     Independence.     A  Comedy.     8°,  pp.  70.     Charleston,  1805. 

Irish-Office-Hunter-Oniad.     A  Heroic  Epic.      (By  Blarney  O'Dem- 
ocrat,  pse«<cL )      18°,  pp.  72.     New  York,  1838. 


130  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

Ikvink.  (J.  P.)  Concerning  Washington  and  His  Monument.  Lg.  8°, 
not  paged.     Washington,  1875. 

Italian  Bkide.  A  Thiy.  (Anon.)  Yates[?].  12°,  pp.  132.  Savan- 
nah, 1856. 

Italian  Husband,  The,  etc.  (Anon.)  16°,  pp.  107.  Philadelphia, 
1825. 

Italian  in  Algiers,  The.  A  Play.  (Anon.)  18°,  pp.  71.  New 
York,  1832. 

Ives,  (C.)     Chips  from  the  Workshop,  etc.      12°,  pp.  152.     New  Haven, 
*     1843. 

IxiON,  The  Spaw^n  of;  or,  "The  Biter  Bit."  (Anon.)  (Forge  of 
Vulcan,  pseHfL)      12°,  pp.  15.     Noplace,  1846. 

The  writer  was  Leon  N.  Salmon. 

Jack  the  Piper,  etc.      (Anon.)     16°,  pp.  23.     New  York,  1831. 
Jackson,  (H.  R.)     Tallulah,  etc.     12°,  pp.  229.     Savannah,  1850. 
Jackson,  (Mrs.  H.  H.) 

Helen  Maria  Fiske,  daughter  of  Professor  N.  W.  Fiske,  was  born  at  Amherst,  Mass., 
in  1831,  and  married  Major  E.  B.  Hunt,  of  the  United  States  Engineers,  in  1S22.  Her  hus- 
band was  killed  in  1863.  Subsequently  she  married  Mr.  Jackson.  She  died  in  San  Fran- 
cisco in  1885.  She  wrote  under  the  signature  of  "  H.  H,"  She  was  among  the  most  popu- 
lar of  American  female  writers. 

—  Ver.ses.     18°,  pp.  viii,  191.     Boston,  1874. 

Jackson,  (J.  AY.)  Universal  Peace.  Poem  delivered  before  the  Bien- 
nial Convention  of  the  Sigma  Chi  Fraternity  in  Washington , 
December  27,  1866.     8°,  pp.  17.     Washington,  1867. 

Jaimson,  (G.)  The  Revolutionary  Soldier.  A  Farce.  12°,  pp.  22. 
Boston,  no  date.  • 

James,  (Maria.) 

Maria  .James  was  born  in  Wales  not  far  from  the  year  1795,  and  came  to  America  in  the 
seventh  year  of  her  age.  For  a  number  of  years  she  lived  as  a  trusted  and  loved  domestic 
in  different  faniDies,  her  marked  intellectual  abilities  securing  for  her  great  respect. 
Bishop  Alonzo  Potter  wrote  the  introduction  to  the  following  named  volume, "in  wliich 
he  warmly  commended  the  genius  and  piety  of  the  author. 

—  Wales  and  other  Poems.      12°,  pp.  170.     New  York,  1839. 


AMEEICAX    POETKY.  131 

Jane  and  Eliza,      (Anon.)      12°,  pp.  12.     Newark,  1840. 

Jane  Eaton;  or,  The   Sunday  School.     In   Four   Books.      (Anon.) 
16°,  pp.  82.     Philadelphia,  1858. 

Janvier,  (F.  De  H.)     The  Sleeping  Sentinel.     12°,  pp.  19.     Philadel- 
phia, 1863. 

The  incidents  in  the  poem  relate  to  William  Scott,  a  young  Vermont  soldier,  who, 
while  on  duty,  fell  asleep.  He  was  condemned  to  die,  and  was  pardoned  by  President  Lin- 
coln.   James  E.  Murdoch  read  the  poem  with  great  effect  on  several  occasions .  • 

Jankey,  (S.  M.)     The  Last  of  the  Lenape,  etc.     12°,  pp.  180.     Phila- 
delphia and  Boston,  1839. 

Jeannette.       (By  ^sculapius  Non  Vinctus,  pseud.)      8°,  pp.  92.     New- 
York,  1857. 

Jerauld,  (Mrs.  Charlotte  A.) 

Charlotte  A.  Fillebrown  was  born  at  Cambridge,  Mass.,  April  16, 1820,  and  in  early 
life  removed  to  Boston,  in  the  excellent  common  schools  of  which  city  she  received  her 
education.  For  a  time,  after  leaving  school,  she  worked  in  a  bookbindery,  meanwhile 
contributing  to  the  "  Ladies'  Repository,"  a  literary  and  religious  periodical  of  the  Univer- 
salist  denomination.  She  married  Mr.  J.  W.  Jerauld,  November  19,  1843.  Her  death 
occurred  August  2, 1845. 

In  the  volume  with  the  title  here  given,  there  is  a  Memoir  of  Mrs.  Jerauld,  by  Henry 
Bacon,  pp.  17-9".  Her  poetry  is  included  in  pp.  100-196,  and  her  prose  writings,  pp.  198- 
440. 

—  Poetry  and  Prose.     8°,  pp.  viii,  196  of  poetry.     Boston,  1850. 

Jerome,  (A.  B.)      11-11-11-5.      A  Signal  Song.     18°,  pp.  8.     Wash- 
ington, no  date. 

Jester,  The  Camp.     (Anon.)     12°,  pp.  71.     Augusta,  Ga.,  1864. 

Jesus,  The  Holy.     The  History  of,  in  Rhyme.     (Anon.)     24th  Edition. 
32°,  pp.  46.     Boston,  1771. 

An  elegantly  bound  copy. 

Jewett,  (Susan.)     The  Parent's  Gift.     Sq.  16°.     New  York,  1843. 

JiLSON,  (C.)     Progress   Attributed   to   the  Laboring  Classes.     Delivered 
before   the    Worcester  County  Mechanics    Association,  March  3, 
•  1853.     12°,  pp.  36.     Worcester,  1853. 

Joan  of  Arc     L.  H.   S.,  a  Member  of  the  Graduating  Class  of  Wake 
Forest  College,  N.  C,  1856.     8°,  pp.  20.     Richmond,  1856. 
20 


132  1IARKI8    COLLECTION. 

JOH.  COMMKXT  UPON  SOME    PASSAGES    In.        (AllOU.)        12°,  pp.    15.       BoS- 

ton.  1783. 

JOBSON,  (C.)      The  World;  or,  Instability.     2d   Edition.      12°,  pp.  249. 
Philadelphia  and  London,  183G. 

JoBsox,   (D.  W.)      The  Poetry  of  the  Flag.     8°,   pp.  20.     New  York, 

1858. 

Johnson,   (E.  R.)      The  Dame  of  Ossipee.     8°,   pp.  17.     Concord,  N.  . 
H.,  1870. 

Johnson,  (J.)     The  Rape  of  Bethesda  ;  or,  The  Georgia  Orphan  House 
Destroyed.      12°,  pp.  16.      Charleston,  1792. 

Johnson,  (Rosa  V.)     Poems.     12°,  pp.  334.     Boston,  1857. 

Johnson,  (R.) 

Rossiter  .lohnson  wus  born  at  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  January  27,  1840,  and  graduated  at 
Rochester  University  in  1S03.  Besides  the  "  Idler  and  Poet,"  he  has  written  "  Phieton 
Rogers,"  "  History  of  the  War  of  1812,"  and  has  edited  several  boolcs  and  serial  works. 

—  Idler  and  Poet.     8°,  pp.  iv,  126.     Boston,  1883. 

Johnson,  (S.  D.)     In  and  Out  of  Place.     12°,  pp.  13.     New  York,  no 
date. 

—  Our  Gal.     A  Farce.     12°,  pp.  9.      New  York,  no  date. 

—  The  Fireman.      12°,  pp.  36.     Boston,  no  date. 

—  The  Shaker  Lovers.     12°,  pp.  10.     Boston,  no  date. 

Johnston,  (A.)     The  Mariner.     A  Poem  in  Two  Cantos.     12°,  pp.  152. 
Philadelphia,  1818. 

Johnson,  (N.  P.)     Poetry.     Original  and  Compiled.     12°,  pp.  54.     Bos- 
ton, 1835. 

JoKEBY.     A   Burlesque  on    Rokeby.      (Anon.)      16°,   pp.   218.     Boston 
and  New  York,  1815. 

Jonathan  and  Virginia,  The  Lives  of.     By  Boswell,  (psev,d.)     12°, 
pp.  120.     Philadelphia,  1873. 

"  Boswell  "  is  the  pimuloHyin  of  W.  B.  Johnson,  of  Virginia. 

Jonathan,  St.     The  Lay  of  a  Scald.      (Anon.)     Canto  II.     8°,  pp.  103. 
New  York,  1838. 

Jonathan  in  England.     (Anon.)     12°,  pp.  32.     Boston,  no  date. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  133 

Jones,  (A.)     Melodies  of  the  Church.     8°,  pp.  440.     New  York,  1832. 
Jones,  (Amanda  T.)     Llah,  etc.     8%  pp.  viii,  3(19.     Buffalo,  1861. 
Jones,  (C.  A.) 

Charles  A.  Jones  was  born  about  the  year  1815  at  Philadelphia.  When  a  child  his 
parents  removed  to  Cincinnati.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  and  practiced  previous  to 
1850  in  New  Orleans.  In  1851  he  returned  to  Cincinnati  on  account  of  failing  healtli,  and 
died  in  Mill  Creek  township,  Hamilton  county,  Ohio,  July  -1,  1851. 

—  The  Outlaw,  etc.      18°,  pp.  72.     Cincinnati,  1835. 

Jones,  (C.  L.  S.)     American  Lyrics.      12°,  pp.  306.     Mobile,  1834. 

—  Translation  of  Voltaire's  Henriad.      12°,  pp.  vii,  304.     Mobile,  1834. 

Jones,  (C.  S.)     Captain  Kyd.     12°,  pp.  44.     Boston,  no  date. 

Jones,  (D.  M.)     Lethe,  etc.     Sm.  12°,  pp.  92.     Philadelphia,  1882. 

Jones,  (E.   C.)      Echoes  of  the  Heart.     Original  Poems.     8°,  pp.  168. 
Philadelphia,  1850. 

—  The  Harp  of  Sylvia.     12°,  pp.  viii,  218.     Philadelphia,  1841. 

Jones,   (J.   H.)     Heaven's  Golden  Treasures.      Sm.  12°,  pp.  18.     Car- 
bondale.  Pa.,  1871. 

Jones,  (J.  S.)     Moll  Pitcher;  or.  The  Fortune  Teller  of  Lyme.     12°, 
pp.  64.     Boston,  1855. 

—  The  Carpenter  of  Rouen.      12°,  pp.  32.     New  York,  no  date. 

—  The  Green  Mountain  Boy.      12°,  pp.  29.     Boston,  no  date. 

—  The  People's  Lawyer.      12°,  pp.  36.     Boston,  1856. 

—  The  Sm-geon  of  Paris.      12°,  pp.  41.     Boston,  1856. 

Jones,  (Mrs.  Eliza  G.)     A  Memoir  of,  with  a  few  of  her  Poems.     12°, 
pp.  212.     Philadelphia,  1853. 

Jones,  (Mrs.  Elizabeth  C.)     Fugitive  Poems.     12°,   pp.  59.     Provi- 
dence, 1826. 

—  Original  Poem.      12°,  pp.  48.     Providence,  1819. 

—  Same.     Part  II.     12°,  pp.  47.     Providence,  1821. 

Jones,   (P.  F.)     '-No  Sect  in    Heaven,"  etc.     A  Wide  Awake  Reply. 
12°,  pp.  8.     New  York,  1875. 


134  HAllRIS    COLLECTIOX. 

Jones,  (.Tri.iA  Clinton.)     ^■;llllalla,  tlio  Myths  of  NorselamL     12°,  pp. 
150.     Now  York,  1880, 

Jordan.  (Cornelia  J.  M.)     Corinth,  aiul  other  Poems  of  the  War.     12°, 
pp.  31.     L}Miflilj"i'g'i:  1865. 

Joseph  and  His    Brethren,  The    Story  of.     (Anon.)     12°,  pp.  18. 
No  phice,  1854. 

Josselyn,  (jEr.[?])     Tar-IIeel  Tales.      12°,  pp.  Gi).     New  York,  1873. 

JOSSELYN,  (R.)     The  Faded  Fh)wer,  etc.      16°,  pp.  167.     Boston,  1849. 

Journey,  The  Pope's,  to  Heaven.     18°,  pp.  32.     (Anon.)     Philadel- 
phia, 1845. 

Jovellanos,  (Del  Senor.)     Epistola  Moral  sobre  Los  Vanos  Deseos  y 
Los  Estudios  de  los  hombres.     8°,  pp.  12.     Lima,  1815. 

Joyce,  (R.  D.)     Blandid.      12°,  pp.  249.     Boston,  1879. 

JuBA.      (Anon.)     United  We  Stand:    Divided  We   Fall.     24°,  pp.   74- 
New  York,  1812. 

Juwlee,  The  Saints'.      (Anon.)     16°,  pp.  24.     St.  Louis,  1866. 

JuDAH,  (S.  B.  H.)     A  Tale  of  Lexington.      18°,  pp.  v,  60.     NewY'ork, 
1823. 

He  wrote  under  the  signature  of  "  Terentius  Fhlogambus." 

—  Gotham  and  the  Gothamites.     24°,  pp.  93.     New  Y^ork,  1823. 

—  Odofried,  the  Outcast.     Sq.  8°.     No  date. 

—  Rose  of  Arragon.     16°,  pp.  38.     New  York,  1822. 

—  The    Mountain  Torrent.      A  Melo-Drama.       18°,  pp.  v,  54.     New^ 

Y^ork,  1820.  . 

JUDD,     (S.) 

Sylvester  .ludd  was  born  at  Westhampton,  JIass.,  July  23,  1813,  graduated  at  Y'ale  in 
1836,  and  pursued  his  theological  studies  at  Cambridge.  He  was  pastor  of  a  Unitarian 
Church  in  Augusta,  Mo.,  18-10-53,  his  ministry  being  terminated  by  his  death,  January  20, 
1853.  His  life  was  written  by  Mrs.  A.  Hall,  1854.  He  was  the  author  of  a  romance,  "  Mar- 
garet," 1845,  a  remarkable  production. 

—  Philo:  An  Evangeliad.      16°,  pp.  244.     Boston,  1850. 
Judith,  Esther,  etc      (Anon.)     16°,  pp.  112.     Boston,  1820. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  135 


JuDSON,  (Mrs.  Emily.) 

Emily  Chubbuck  was  born  at  Eaton,  N.  Y.,  in  1S17.  Under  the  signature  of  "  Fanny 
Forrester  "  she  attained  to  much  popularity  as  a  writer  of  both  prose  and  poetry.  In 
June,  1846,  she  married  Rev.  Dr.  Adoniram  Judson,  the  distinguished  missionary  to  Bur- 
mali.  After  his  decease,  in  1850,  she  returned  to  the  United  States,  and  died  at  Hamilton, 
N.  Y.,  in  1854. 

—   An  Olio  of  Domestic  Verses.      12^,  pp.  232.     New  York,  1852. 

JuLAP,    {pseud  ?)      The   Glosser.      A   Poem  in  Two  Books.      18°.     No 
place,  1802. 

Julian.     A  Tragedy.      (Anon.)      12°,  pp.  59.     Baltimore,  1843. 

Julius,  (Julia  M.)      Hoboken,   etc.      Sq.  12°,   pp.    112.     New  York, 
1866. 

JuMBO-JuM.     A  Farce.      (Anon.)      12°,  pp.  16.     Boston,  no  date. 

Juniper  Hill  Cemetery,  Bristol,  R.  I.     (Anon.)     12°,  pp.  16.     No 
place,  no  date. 

JuNKiN,  (D.  X.,  D.  D.)     The  Class  of  1831,  Jefferson  College.  Pa.     A 
Memorial.     12°,  pp.  31.     Pittsbm-g,  1861. 


Kah-Ge-Ga-Gah-Bowh,  or  Copway,  (G.)  The  Ojibway  Conquest. 
A  Tale  of  the  Northwest.      12°,  pp.  91.     New  York,  1850. 

Kalewala  and  Hiawatha.     8°,  pp.  21.     Lancaster,  Pa.,  no  date. 

Kalewala  is  an  epic  poem,  "unique  and  thoroughly  national  in  its  character,  among 
»        the  people  of  Finland."    The  resemblance  of  Longfellow's  "  Hiawatha  "  to  this  poem  is 
pointed  out. 

Kansas  War,  The;  or,  The  Conquests  of  Chivalry  in  the  Cru- 
sades OF  THE  Nineteenth  Century.  A  Heroic  Poem.  12°,  pp. 
164.     New  York,  1856. 

Kause,  (J.  C.)     Poems.     16°,  pp.  132.     Philadelphia,  1778. 

Keeper,  (J.)     Slavery,  etc.     12°,  pp.  120.     Baltimore,  1864. 

Keese,  (J.)     The  Poets  of  America.      12°,  pp.  284.      New  York,  1840. 

—  Same.     Vol.  II  of  tlie  Series.      12°,  pp.  320.      New  York,  1842. 

—  Same.     5th  Edition.     Vol.  II   of  the  Series.      12°,  pp.   284.     Bos- 

ton, no  date. 


136  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

Keimeu,   (S.) 

Samiu'l  Ktimcr  was,  according  to  Franklin's  statement,  "  one  of  tlie  French  prophets, 
and  could  act  their  enthiisiiistic  agitations."  His  elegy  on  "  Aquila  Hose  "  is  a  noted  pro- 
duction. He  employed  Franklin  as  a  printer.  Subsequently  he  went  to  the  West  Indies, 
and  was  editor  of  the  Jittrbadoes  Gazette.    See  on  the  above,  Duyckinck,  vol.  i,  p.  100. 

—  Caribboana.     Prose  and   Poetry.     2  vols.     4°,  pp.  404,  358.     Lon- 

don, 1741. 

Kemble,    (F.  a.)     Francis  the  First.     A  Tragedy  in  Five  Acts.     6th 
American  Edition.     8°,  pp.  72.     New  York,  1833. 

See  sketch  under  F.  K.  Butler. 

—  Poems.     12°,  pp.  ix,  312.     Boston,  1859. 
Kendall,  (E.  H.)     Poems.     12°,  pp.  32.     No  place,  1850. 
Kendrick,  (A.  C.) 

Asahel  C.  Kendrick,  D.  D.,  LL.  D.,  was  born  at  Poultney,  N.  Y.,  December  7,  1809, 
graduated  at  Hamilton  College,  Clinton,  N.  Y.,  in  1831,  was  elected  Professor  of  Greek  and 
Latin  in  Madison  University  in  1832,  and  subsequently,  dropping  the  Latin  Professorship, 
retained  the  Greek  until  1850,  when  he  was  elected  to  the  Greek  chair  in  the  new  Uni- 
versity of  Kochester,  X.  Y.  Dr.  K.  is  the  author  of  several  classical  and  other  works,  and 
takes  high  rank  among  American  scholars.  His  present  residence  (1880)  is  in  Rochester, 
N.  Y. 

—  Echoes  ;  or,  Leisure    Hours    with  the   German   Poets.      12°,  pp.  iv, 

148.     Rochester,  New  York  and  Chicago,  1855. 

Kennedy,    (C.)      Corn   in   the  Blade.     Poems   and  Thoughts   in  Verse. 
12°,  pp.  XV,  213.     New  York,  18G0. 

Kennedy,  (J.)     The    Night  Vision.     12°,   pp.  vii,   152.     Philadelphia, 
1859. 

Kennedy,  (T.)     Poems.     12°,  pp.  334.     "Washington,  1816. 

—  Songs  of  Love  and  Liberty.      12°,  pp.  96.     Washington,  1817. 

Kenyon,  (W.  a.)     Poetry  of  Observation,  etc.      12°,  pp.  iv,  104.     Bos- 
ton, 1851. 

—  Same.     Part  II,  etc.      12°,  pp.  104.     Boston,  1853. 

Kerr,  (H.)     Texas,  Poetical  Description  of.      18°,  pp.  122.     New  York, 

1838. 
Ketchum,  (Annie  C.)     Benny:    A  Christmas  Ballad.     12°,  pp.  9.     New 

York,  1870. 
Ketchum,    (Mrs.   Chambers.)      Lotos    Flowers,  gathered   in  Sun    and 

Shadow.      12°,  pp.  205.     New  York,  1877. 


AMEEICAX    POETRY.  137 

Keteltas,   (Caroline  M.)     The  Last  of  the  Plantagenets.     A  Tragic 
Drama.      12',  pp.  iv,  56.     New  York,  1844. 

Kettell,  (S.) 

Samuel  Kettell  was  born  at  Newburyport,  Mass.,  August  5,  1800.  He  is  said  to  have 
been  an  accomplished  linguist,  and  to  have  mastered  no  less  than  fourteen  languages. 
Mr.  Goodrich  employed  him  as  his  assistant  in  preparing  his  "  Peter  Parley  "  books.  For 
seven  years  (1848-55)  he  was  chief  editor  of  the  Boston  Courier.  He  published  several 
books,  the  best  known  of  which  is  the  one  referred  to  below.  His  death  took  place  at 
Maiden,  Mass.,  December  3,  1855. 

—  Specimens   of  American   Poetry.     3  vols.     12°.     Vol.  I,  pp.  xlviii, 

253.     Vol  II,  pp.  X,  408.     Vol.  Ill,  pp.  x,  406.     Boston,  1829. 

Key,   a,   to  the    Grand    Maxims   of   Republican    Liberty.     (By  a 

Yankee  LaAvyer.     Anon.)      16°,  pp.  72.     Philadelphia,  1844. 
Key,  (F.  S.) 

Francis  Scott  Key  was  born  in  Frederic  county,  Md.,  August,  1~79,  educated  at  St. 
John's  College,  Annapolis,  studied  law,  and  commenced  practice  in  1801  in  his  native 
county.  Subsequently  he  removed  to  VV'ashington,  where  he  was  appointed  District  Attor- 
ney. He  died  January  11,  1843.  He  was  the  well-known  author  of  the  "  Star  Spangled 
Banner,"  a  national  song,  inspired  by  the  author's  position  as  a  prisoner  held  by  the  Bri- 
tish in  1814,  when  Fort  McHenry  was  unsuccessfully  bombarded. 

—  Poems.      12°,  pp.  ix,  203.     New  York,  1857. 

Keyes,  (F.  J.)     A  Life  Poem,  etc.     12°,  pp.  120.     Boston,  1855. 
KiDD,  (A.)     The  Huron  Chief,  etc.      12°,  pp.  216.      Montreal,  1830. 
Kidder,  (J.)      The  Drama  of  Earth.      12°,  pp.  360.      New  York,  1857. 
Kidney,  (J.  S.) 

John  Steinfort  Kidney  was  born  in  Essex  county,  N.  .J.,  in  1819,  was  educated  in  part 
at  Union  College,  studied  law,  then  theology,  received  orders  in  the  Episcopal  Church,  and 
was  settled  at  Saratoga  Springs,  N.  Y. 

—  Catawba  River,  etc.      16°,  pp.  119.     New  York,  1847. 

—  The  Conflict  of  the  Age.     8°,  pp.  22.      Hartford,  1856. 

KiLBOURN,  (P.  K.)      The  Sceptic,  etc.      12°,  pp.  180.      Hartford,  1843. 

KiLTON,   (Chancellor    F.)       Homer.     A    Burlesque    Translation.       A 
Folio  Manuscript. 

The  "copy,"  with  the  author's  memoranda  for  editor  and  printer.  The  manuscript  is 
very  neatly  written  out,  apparently  by  a  copyist,  in  a  stout  folio  volume,  which  is  in  good 
condition.  A  pencil  memorandum  on  the  fly-leaf  ascribes  the  work  to  Chancellor  Kilty, 
of  Maryland.  He  was  tlie  author  of  "  Report  of  all  such  English  Statutes  as  are  applicable 
to  the  United  States."    Annapolis,  1811. 

Kimball,  (S.  C.)     Poems.     18°,  pp.  139.     Albany,  1858. 


138  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

KiMMKXS,   (H.)     The  Numbor  of  the    Beast.     8°,  pp.  31.     New  York, 

1806. 
King,   (D.    S.)      Fireside    Poetical    Readings.      12°,   pp.    313.     Boston, 

1843. 
King,  The,   and  His  Cabinet.     (Th.   Horatius  Delpho,  pseud.)     12°, 

pp.  23.     No  place,  no  date. 

Kinney,  (E}lizai5Ktii  C.)  Felicita.  A  Metrical  Romance.  12°,  pp. 
188.     New  York,  185.'). 

—  Poems.     8°,  pp.  226.     New  York,  186  7. 

Knapp,  (J.)     Revival  Melodies.     Sq.  18°,  pp.  60.     Boston,  1842. 

Knapp,  (S.  L.)  Advice  in  the  Pursuits  of  Literature.  Several  poems 
in  the  volume.     12°,  pp.  296.     Granville,  Middletown,  N.  J.,  1837. 

Kneeland,  (A.)  National  Hymns  for  the  nse  of  those  who  are  "  Slaves 
to  noSect."     24°,  pp.  140.     Boston,  1834. 

Knight,  (A.)     Miracles  of  God  and  the  Prophets.      18°,  pp.  18.     New- 
bury port,  1829. 
Knight,  (H.  C.) 

Henrj'  Coggswell  Knight  was  born  at  Newburyport,  Mass.,  not  far  from  1788,  grad- 
uated at  Brown  University  in  1812,  took  orders  in  tlie  Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  but 
was  never  settled.    He  died  in  1835. 

—  Poems.     2  vols.     18°,  192,  195.     Boston,  1821. 

—  The  Broken  Harp.     18°,  pp.  x,  176.     Philadelphia,  1815. 

Knight,  The,  of  the  Rum  Bottle  &  Co.  A  Musical  Farce.  (Anon.) 
32°,  pp.  16.     New  York,  1818. 

Know  Nothing.  A  Poem  for  Natives  and  Aliens.  12°,  pp.  38.  Bos- 
ton, 1854. 

KoRMAK,  An  Icelandic  Romance  of  the  Tenth  Century.  In  Six 
Cantos.      (Anon.)      16°,  pp.  vi,  118.     Boston,  1861. 

Kossuth  Coppered.     (Anon.)     8°,  pp.  32.     New  York,  1852. 

Krause,  (W.  E.  F.)  Four  Poems.  The  Destiny  of  Mankind;  or,  The 
Redeemed  Savage. — The  Christian's  Cross,  borne  by  Faith,  Hope 
and  Charity.  —  The  Advance  of  the  United  States;  or,  The  Test 
of  Brotherly  Love.  —  Heaven's  Record  of  Mankind  ;  or.  The  Birth 
of  a  Child.     8°,  pp.  16.     San  Francisco,  1868. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  139 

Krause,  (W.  E.  F.)  —  Continued. 

—  The  Sanctity  of  Marriage.     12°,  pp.  16.     San  Francisco,  1869. 

Knowles,  (Sarah  E.)  Orlean  Lamar,  etc.  12°,  pp.  167.  New  York 
and  London,  1864. 

Knowles,  (W.  J.)  Features  of  Inaixguration  of  the  Franklin  Statue  in 
Boston,  September  17,  1856.     12°,  pp.  12.     Boston,  1856. 

—  Poetical  Expression  of  the  Gospels.      12°,  pp.  96.     Boston,  1858. 

Knowlton,  (J.  M.)  The  Prize  of  Life.  12°,  pp.  12.  Sing  Sing,  N. 
Y.,  1850. 

—  Beauty.     12°,  pp.  15.     Sing  Sing,  1848. 

La  Araucana.  Rimera.  Segundo  y  Tercera  Parte  de  Don  Alonzo  de 
Ercilla  y  Zuniga  Caballero  de  la  Ordre  de  Santiago,  etc.  Folio, 
pp.  167.     Madrid,  1733. 

La  Bree,  (L.)  Ebenezer  Venture.  A  Farce.  12°,  pp.  18.  New 
York,  no  date. 

Ladd,  (J.  B.) 

Joseph  Brown  Ladd  was  born  at  Newport,  R.  I.,  in  1"04.  While  studying  medicine 
he  wrote  under  the  signature  of  ''Arouet,"  his  poems  being  addressed  to  "Amanda,"  a 
name  by  which  he  designated  the  lady  who  subsequently  became  his  wife.  In  1"S3  he  re- 
moved to  Charleston,  S.  C,  where  he  had  an  extensive  medical  practice.  Having  become 
involved  in  a  political  controversy  he  was  killed  in  a  duel  in  1786. 

—  Arouet.     Poems  of.      12°,  pp.  viii,  128.     Charleston,  S.  C,  1786. 

—  Literary  Remains.     Poems.     8°,  pp.  xxvi,  163.     New  York,  1832. 

La  Deesse.  An  Elssler-atic  Romance.  (Anon.)  12°,  pp.  44.  New 
York,  1841. 

Lady  Elgiva,  The.     A  Christmas  Myth,  by  M.   L.  B.     (Anon.)     Sq. 

18°,  pp.  47.     New  York,  1866. 
La  Gazza  Ladra.     A  Melo-Drama.     18°,  pp.  101.     New  York,  1833. 
Laighton,  (A.)     Poems.     16°,  pp.  133.     Boston,  1859. 
Lake,  (W.) 

William  Lake  was  born  at  Kingston,  Penn.,  in  1787,  and  died  in  1805,  at  the  early  age 
of  18  years. 

—  The  Parnassian  Pilgrim.      12°,  pp.  184.     Hudson,  1807. 

Lamar,  (M.  L.)     Verse  Memorials.     Lg.   8°,    pp.    224.      New  York, 
1857. 
21 


140  HAEEIS    COLLECTION. 

Lament.  The,  of  Quintin  McKell.      Sq.    1G°,   pp.  48.     New  York, 

185S. 

Lamentations  of  a  Bereaved  Mother.     (Anon.)     12°,  pp.  99.    Farm- 
ville,  Va.,  1849. 

Lamentation,  The,   of  Mary  Magdalene.     18°,  pp.  11.     No  place, 
1793. 

Lamplighter  Picture  Book.     (Anon.)     8°,  pp.  30.     Boston,  1856. 

Lancey,  (S.  H.)    Tlie  Native  Poets  of  Maine.    Lg.  8°,  pp.  324.    Bangor, 
1854. 

Lander,  (Meta.)     Fading  Flowers.     12°,  pp.  xiv,  288.     Boston,  1860. 

Landis,  (J.  ) 

Mr.  John  Landis,  "  poet,  painter  and  prophet,"  informs  the  JSfeiv  York  Post,  that  being 
without  a  home,  lie  is  willing  to  accept  contributions  towards  settling  him  in  life.  Under 
date  of  October,  1854,  he  says  :  "  My  hei-oic  poem,  'Life  of  the  Messiah,'  fifth  edition,  is  out 
of  print,  and  I  am  out  of  money,  sojourning  at  a  shilling  lodging  house,  while  foreign 
theatrical  celebrities  live  at  the  St.  Nicholas,  &c.,  at  times  accumulating  fortunes.  I 
expect  success  from  tlie  citizens,  particularly  of  our  country." 

—  Messiah.     Sq.  16°,  pp.  64.     Chambersburg,  1838. 

Landis,  (R.  W.)     Liberty's  Triumph.      12°,  pp.  544.     New  York,  1849. 

La  Nelwille,   (M.  J.)     P^legie  Sur  La   Mort   de   George  AYashington. 
8°,  pp.  6.     Philadelphia,  1800. 

Larcom,  (Lucy.) 

Lucy  Larcom  was  born  at  Beverly  Farms,  Mass.,  in  1826.  She  worked  in  early  life  in 
the  Lowell  mills,  and  subsequently  was  a  teacher  in  Illinois  and  Massachusetts.  Her 
compilations  of  prose  and  verse  are  valuable. 

—  Wild  Roses  of  Cape  Ann,  etc.     3d  Edition.     12°,  pp.  272.     Boston, 

1881. 

Lash,  The;  or.  Truths  in  Rhyme.     (Eustacius  Swamerdam,  pseud.) 
8°,  pp.  35.     No  place,  1840. 

Lathrop,  (J.) 

John  Lathrop  was  born  at  Boston  in  .January,  1772,  graduated  at  Harvard  in  1789, 
commenced  the  practice  of  law,  removing  to  Dedham  in  1797.  Here  he  remained  but  a 
short  time.  Returning  to  Boston  he  practiced  his  profession  and  devoted  his  spare  hours 
to  literary  pursuits.  In  1799  he  went  to  Calcutta  and  started  an  English  school  in  that  city. 
He  remained  abroad  about  twenty  years,  then  returned  to  Boston,  was  teacher,  lecturer, 
periodical  writer,  etc.  Having  obtained  a  situation  in  the  Post  Office  Department,  he  took 
up  his  residence  in  Georgetown,  D.  C.,  where  he  died  January  30,  1820. 


AMEKICAN    POETRY.  141 

Lathrop,  (J.)  —  Continued. 

—  The  Speech  of  Caunonicus  ;  or,  An  ludian  Tradition.     A  Poem,  with 

Exphmatory  Notes.     4°,  pp.  xi,  25.     Calcutta,  1802. 

A  presentation  copy  by  the  author  to  "  Mr.  W.  Oliver."  It  has  been  put  into  elegant 
binding  by  Bedford. 

Lathy,   (T.  P.) 

Thomas  Pike  Lathy,  who  wrote  under  the  signature  of  "  Piscator,"  was  born  at  Exe- 
ter, England,  in  1771.  He  was  brought  up  as  a  trader,  but  gratified  his  taste  for  letters 
instead  of  devoting  himself  exclusively  to  business. 

—  Reparation;  or,  The  School  for  Libertines.      12°,  pp.  46.     Boston, 

1800. 
Latrobe,  (J.  H.  B.) 

John  Hazelhurst  Boneval  Latrobe  was  born  at  Philadelphia  in  1803,  and  was  admitted 
to  the  Baltimore  bar  in  1825.  He  has  taken  much  interest  in  the  Maryland  Historical 
Society,  and  devoted  himself  to  historical  and  other  literary  work. 

—  Odds  and  Ends.     Sq.  8°,  pp.  72.     Baltimore,  1864. 

—  Ode.     Sesqui-Centennial  Anniversary  of  the  Settlement  of  Baltimore, 

October  18,  1880.     8°,  pp.  10.     No  place,  no  date. 

Laurel,  The.     A  Gift  for  all  Seasons.     (Anon.)     18°,  pp.  251.     Balti- 
moi-e,  1837. 

—  Same.      (Anon.)     18°,  pp.  252.     Boston,  1836. 

Laus  Patriae  Celestis.     Translation  of  an  Ancient  Hymn.     (By  0.  A. 
M.)     12°,  pp.  16.     Albany,   1867. 

Lawrence,    (I.)     Shadows  of  the  Metropolis.     8°,  pp.  8.     New  York, 

1859. 
Lawrence,  (J.,  Jr.) 

Jonathan  Lawrence,  Jr.,  was  born  in  the  city  of  New  York,  November  19,  1807,  grad- 
uated from  Columbia  College  at  the  early  age  of  fifteen,  studied  and  practiced  law,  devot- 
ing his  leisure  hours  to  literary  pursuits.    He  died  April  26,  1833. 

—  A  Selection  from  the  Writings  of.     12°,   pp.   v,    172.     Poetry,  pp. 

75-172.     New  York,  1833. 
Lawson,  (J.) 

James  Lawson  was  born  at  Glasgow,  Scotland,  November  9, 1799,  and  was  educated  in 
the  University  in  that  city.  He  came  to  America  in  1815,  and  entered  his  maternal  uncle's 
counting-house  in  the  city  of  New  York.  He  began  early  to  interest  himself  in  literary  pur- 
suits, and  was  the  means  of  introducing  several  of  the  most  distinguished  authors  to  the 
British  people  by  his  correspondence  with  the  editor  of  the  Oreenock  Advertiser.  In  1827 
he  was  associate  editor  of  the  N'ew  York  Courier  and  Enquirer,  remaining  in  that  position 
until  1829.  For  about  four  years  lie  was  connected  with  the  Mercantile  Advertiser.  For 
many  years  he  pursued  the  business  of  marine  insurance  in  New  York  City. 


142  HAKKIS    COLLECTIOX. 

Lawson,  (J.)  —  Continued. 

—  Giordano.     A  Tragedy.     8°,  pp.  102.     New  York,  1832. 

—  Same.     8%  pp.  102.     New  Haven,  1859. 

—  The  Maniac,  etc.     18°,  pp.  101.     Philadelphia,  1811. 

Lay  of  the  Bed-Chamber,   The.     A  Farce.      (Anon.)      12°,  pp.  17. 
New  York,  no  date. 

Lay,  The,  of  the  Last  Pilguim.     (Anon.)     12°,  pp.  48.     Charleston, 
S.  C,  1832. 

Lay  of   the  Wilderness,   The.     A  Poem  in  Five  Cantos.     (Anon.) 
12°,  pp.  X,  1G3.     vSaint  John,  1833. 

Lays  of  Liberty.     (Anon.)     18°,  pp.  55.     Boston,  1854. 

Leadbeater,    (J.,   Jr.)      Literary  Remains.      12°,   pp.    106.     Philadel- 
phia, 1850. 

Leaves  Gathered  in  the  Daily  Walks  of  Life.     (Anon.)     Sq.  18°, 
pp.  223.     Philadelphia,  1867. 

Leavitt,  (J.  M.)     Afranius  and  the  Idumean,  etc.     12°,  pp.  255.     Bos- 
ton, 1869. 

—  The  Siege  of  Babyton.     16°,  pp.  47.     New  York,  1869. 

Le  Baron,  (F.)     The  Poet  and  His  Song.     12°,  pp.  118.     Charleston, 
1848. 

Le  Cato,  (N.  J.  W.)     Theodora,  etc.     12°,  pp.  67.     Baltimore,  1871. 

—  Same.     12°,  pp.  61.     New  York,  1872. 

Lecraw,    (.J.   B.)     Reformed  Man.     Life,    Travels    and   Sufferings   of. 
12°,  pp.  36.     Pawtucket,  R.  I.,  1844. 

Lee,  (A.  M.)     Fashion,  etc.     12°,  jjp.  52.     New  York,  1864. 

Lee,  (C.)     Scriptural  Hymns.     12°,  pp.  72.     Middletown,  Conn.,  1824. 

Lee,  (C.  C.)     Virghiia  Georgics.     8°,  pp.    121.     Richmond,  1858. 

Lee,  (Jean.)     Nothing  but  Leaves.     Illustrated.     4°,  pp.  5.     Philadel- 
phia, 1868. 

Lee,  (Leila.)     Wee-Wee  Songs.     18°,  pp.  203.     Boston,  1859. 

—  Same.     12°,  pp.  200.     New  York,  1878. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  143 

Lee,  (M.  E.) 

Mary  Elizabeth  Lee  was  born  at  Charleston,  S.  C,  March,  23,  1813,  and  commenced  to 
write  for  "  The  Southern  Kose"  when  she  was  about  twenty  years  of  age,  and  soon  began  to 
attract  attention.  Among  the  earlier  productions  of  her  pen  was  a  volume  for  which  she 
received  a  prize  from  the  Massachusetts  Board  of  Education,  entitled  "  Social  Evenings ; 
or,  Historical  Tales  for  Youth."  Her  contributions  to  journals,  of  which  "  Graham's 
Magazine,"  "Godey's  Lady's  Book"  and  the  "Southern  Literary  Messenger "  were 
representatives,  were  very  numerous.  She  possessed  a  happy  faculty  for  translation,  and 
was  able  to  lay  before  her  English  readers  many  gems  from  German  poetry.  For  a  notice 
of  her  works  see  the  "Southern  Quarterly  Review,"  voL  xix,  pp.  518.  Slie  died  September 
23,  1849. 

—  Poetical  Remains.     Memoir  by  S.  Gilnian,  D.  D.      12°,  pp.  xl,  224. 

Charleston,  1851. 
Lees,  (T.  J.)     The  Musings  of  Carol.     18°,  pp.  viii,  178.     Wheeling, 

Va.,  1831. 
Legend  of  the  Castle  of  Drachenfels.     In  Humorous  Verse.     (J. 

M.  S.     Anon.)      8°,  pp.  xi,  100.     Washington,  1881. 
Leggett,  (AY.) 

William  Leggett  was  born  in  the  city  of  New  York  in  1802,  became  midshipman  in  the 
United  States  Navy  in  1822,  resigned  in  1826,  was  associated  in  1829,  with  W.  C.  Bryant 
in  the  editorial  management  of  the  Neiv  Yoi-k  Evening  Post,  holding  the  position  till 
1836.  For  a  short  time  lie  edited  The  I'laindealer,  which  was  continued  only  ten  months. 
In  May,  1839,  he  was  appointed  by  Tan  Buren,  diplomatic  agent  to  the  Republic  of  Gau- 
temala.    He  died,  however,  before  entering  upon  the  duties  of  his  office,  May  29, 1839. 

—  Poems.     16°,  pp.  46.     MS.     Edwardsville,  1822. 

Le  Guire,  (A.)     The  Heliad.     12°,  pp.  vii,  53.     Haverstraw,  1828. 

Lehmanowski,  (L.  F.)     The  Fall  of  Warsaw.     A  Tragedy.     18°,  pp. 
59.     Annapolis,  1840. 

Leiber,  (F.)     Ein  Ergnk.     8°,  pp.  3.     St.  Louis,  1872. 

Leigh,  (Larry.)     The  True  Grecian  Bend.     A  Story  in  Verse.     12°, 
pp.  48.     New  York,  1868. 

Leighton,  (R.,  Jr.)     Character.     12°,  pp.  35.     Boston,  1859. 

Leisure  Hours.      Desultory  Pieces  in  Prose  and  Verse.     (By  E.  L., 
Anon.)     Lg.  8°,  pp.  320.     Calcutta,  1846. 

The  author's  name  was  Mrs.  Lydia  Lillybridge  Simons,  a  missionary  in  Burma. 

Leisure  Hours.     (By  Tacita,  pseud.)     18°,  pp.  106.     Utica,  1855. 
Leland,  (C.  G.) 

Charles  Godfrey  Leland  was  born  at  Philadelphia,  August  15,  1824,  graduated  at 
Princeton  in  1845,  and  studied  three  years  in  European  Universities.    He  has  been  a  busy 


144  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

Lelanh,  (C.  G.) — Continued. 

writer  during  liis  literary  career.  Lippincott,  in  his  last  rronouncing  Biographical  Dic- 
tionary, IStiii,  refers  to  thirteen  of  his  publications,  bringing  the  date  down  to  1882.  See 
AUibone,  pp.  1081  -S2. 

—  Breitmanu  and  his  riiilosopede.     Illustrated  by  Frank  Beard.      12°, 

pp.  22.     New  York,  1869. 

—  Hans  Breitniaim  about  Town,  and  other  new  r>allads.      Second  Series 

of  the  Breitman  Ballads.     8°,  pp.  G2.     Philadelphia,  1869. 

—  Hans  Breitman  in  Politics.     8°,  pp.  13.     Philadelphia,  1869. 

—  Hans  Breitman's  Party.     With  other  Ballads.     8°,  pp.  32.     Phila- 

delphia, 1868. 

—  Same.     8°,  pp.  48.     Philadelphia,  1869. 

—  The  Music  Lesson  of  Confucius,  etc.      18°,  pp.  168.     London,  1872. 

—  The  Poetry  and  Mystery  of  Dreams.      12°,  pp.  xi,   271.     Philadel- 

phia, 1856. 

Leland,  (O.  S.)     Beatrice  ;  or,  The  False  and  the  True.     12°,   pp.   64. 
Boston,  1858. 

—  Caprice.     A  Comedy.      12°,  pp.  50.     Boston,  1857. 

—  The  Rights  of  Man.     A  Comedy.      12°,  pp.  30.     Boston,  no  date. 

Lescarbot,  (M.) 

Marc  Lescarbot  was  born  of  a  noble  family  at  Vervins,  France,  not  far  from  the  mid- 
die  of  the  16th  century,  for  a  time  was  an  advocate  in  Parlianient,  resided  for  several  years 
in  Xew  France,  now  Canada,  and  published  an  account  of  that  country.  Subsequently  he 
attended  Peter  de  Castille,  the  Ambassador  of  Louis  XIII.  to  Switzerland,  and  published 
a  description  of  the  Thirteen  Cantons  in  French  heroic  verse.  The  "  Biographic  Univer- 
salle,"  Paris,  1819,  says  :  "  Ou  ignore  les  autres  particularites  de  la  vie  de  Lescarbot;  et  ce 
n'est  que  par  conjecture  qu'on  place  sa  mort  vers  I'an  1630." 

—  Les  Muses  de  la  Nouvelle  France.     A  Monseigneur  Le  Chancellier, 

etc.     Sm.  8°,  pp.  6  (not  numbered),  66.     Paris,  1609. 

This  elegantly  bound  volume  was  presented  to  Mr.  Harris  by  John  Carter  Brown, 
for  sundry  tracts  about  the  Lancaster  Massacre. 

Lesdermer,  (Mrs.  Emily  P.  De.)  Voices  of  Life.  12°,  pp.  38.  New 
York,  1853. 

—  Same.      18°,  pp.  104.     Paris,  1862. 

L'Estrange,  (Cokinxe.)  Woman's  Witchcraft  ;  or.  The  Curse  of 
Coquetry.  A  Dramatic  Romance.  .  12°,  pp.  73.  Philadelphia, 
1854. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  145 

Lewis,  (A.) 

Alonzo  Lewis,  wlio  wrote  under  the  signature  of  "  The  Lynn  Bard,"  was  born  in  1794, 
in  Lynn,  Mass.,  which  was  his  permanent  residence.  He  was  a  teacher,  had  the  editorial 
charge  of  a  paper,  made  maps,  was  a  surveyor,  and  for  a  term  of  years  filled  the  office  of 
Justice  of  the  Peace.    He  died  in  1861. 

—Poems.     12°,  pp.  203.     Portsmoutli,   1823. 

Lewis,  (E.)      Eulogy  on  Washington,    in    verse.      Delivered  at  Lenox, 
February  22,  1800.      16°,  pp.  20.     Pittsfield.  1800. 

Lewis,  (Estelle  Anna.) 

Estelle  A.  B.  Robinson  was  born  near  Baltimore,  educated  at  the  Troy  Seminary,  and 
married  Mr.  S.  D.  Lewis,  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  She  has  been  a  large  contributor  to  the 
periodical  literature  of  the  day. 

—  Poems.     8°,  pp.  420.     New  York,  1857. 

—  Myths  of  the  Minstrel.      12°,  pp.  x,  95.     New  York,  1852. 

Lewis,  (Eliza  G.)     Poems.     12°,  pp.  148.     Brooklyn,  1850. 

Lewis,  (Mks.  S.  Anna.)     Child  of  the  Sea,  etc.     12°,  pp.  179.     New 
York,  1848. 

Leypoldt,    (F.)       Copperheads,   Ye  Book  of.      pp.   24.      Philadelphia, 
1863. 

Liberty.  A  Poem  by  Kustious.  (Anon.)  Sm.  4°,  pp.  iv,  26.  Phila- 
delphia, 1768. 

A  note  says  "  lately  found  in  a  bundle  of  papers." 

—  Same.     2d  Edition.     4°,  pp.  21.     Charlestown,  1770. 

Liberty  Bell,  The.     12°,  pp.  208.     Boston,  1843. 

—  Same.      12°,  pp.  231.  Boston,  1844. 

—  Same.     12°,  pp.  256.  Bo.ston,  1845. 

—  Same.      12°,  pp.  268.  Boston,  1846.  * 

—  Same.     12°,  pp.  292.  Boston,  1848. 

—  Same. .    12°,  pp.  292.  Boston,  1849. 
__  Same.     12°,  pp.  315.  Boston,  1853. 

—  Same.     12°,  pp.  200.     Boston,  1856. 

Liberty,  Property  and  No  Excise.  A  poem  compos'd  on  occasion  of 
the  Light  seen  on  the  Great  Trees  (so  called)  in  Boston,  New  Eng- 
land, on  the  14th  of  August,  1765.  12°.  pp.  8.  Boston,  1765. 
(Price,  6  cop.) 


146  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

LiDDESDALE,  LoRD  ;  ou,  TiiE  BoKDER  Chief.     A  Tragedy,      (Anon.) 
Lg.  8°,  pp.  101.     Yonkers,  N.  Y.,  1874. 

The  name  of  James  Lawson  is  given  as  having  entered  this  volume. 

LiDSTONE,  (J.  T.  S.)     Bostoniad.     12°,  pp.  86.     Boston,  1853. 

LlEBER,   (F.) 

Francis  Lieber  was  born  at  Berlin,  March  18,  1800.  For  a  time  he  was  in  the  German 
Army,  and  at  the  battle  of  Waterloo  was  wounded.  After  various  fortunes  in  the  old 
world  he  came  to  the  United  States  in  1827,  and  entered  upon  the  work  of  editing  the 
"Encyclopicdia  Americana,"  which  was  completed  in  13  volumes  8°,  published  in  Phila- 
delphia 1828-32.  For  a  number  of  years  he  was  engaged  in  important  literary  work,  the 
best  known  of  his  productions  being  "  Manual  of  Political  Ethics,"  "  Legal  and  Political 
Hermeneutics,"  and  "  Civil  Liberty  and  Self-Government."  He  was  professor  in  South 
Carolina  College  1835-50,  and  was  chosen  professor  in  Columbia  College  in  1857,  and 
remained  in  office  till  liis  deatli,  October  2,  1872. 

—  The  West.     Sq.  1G°,  pp.  31.     New  York,  1848. 

Lies,  (E.)     The  Preludes.     12°,  pp.  56.     New  York,  1846. 

Life- Wake,  The,  of  the  Fine  Arkansas  Gentleman  who  Died  Be- 
fore His  Time.     8°,  pp.  54.     AYashington,  1859. 

A  report  that  Albert  Pike,  the  Arkansas  poet  had  died,  led  to  the  observance  of  this 
"  wake  "  or  entertainment  given  by  J.  F.  Coyle,  Esq.  A  memorial  which  had  been  pre- 
pared by  Professor  Alexander  Dimitry  was  read  on  the  occasion.  A  song  was  then  sung 
by  the  host,  entitled  "The  Second  Fyfte  of  the  Fine  Arkansas  Gentleman  who  died  Before 
His  Time,"  which  was  followed  by  a  speech  from  the  supposed  decedent,  who  had  been 
invited  to  be  present  at  his  own  "  wake."  Songs  deemed  appropriate  to  the  occasion  were 
sung,  and  the  combination  of  the  grave  and  the  humorous  gave  great  zest  to  the  entertain- 
ment, an  account  of  which,  written  by  Dr.  R.  Shelton  Mackenzie,  appeared  in  the  Phila- 
delphia  Press,  January  22,  1859.  On  the  fly-leaf  of  the  volume,  which  has  been  attractively 
bound,  is  the  following :  "  This  private  print  is  excessively  rare.  Very  few  copies  were 
printed.    I  never  saw  but  one  other  copy  even  in  private  hands. — B.  M." 

Light,  (G.  AV.)     Keep  Cool,  etc.     18°,  pp.  35.     Boston,  1851. 
LiLLiBRiDGE,  (G.  R.)      Tancred.     A  Drama.     18°,  pp.  68.     Providence, 

1824. 
Lincoln,  (E.)     A  Poem.     18°,  pp.  180.     Portland,  1816. 
LiNDSEY,  (W.  M.)     Poems.     12°,  pp.  197.     New  York,  1856. 
LiNDSLEY,  (A.  B.)     Love  and  Friendship.     A  Comedy.      18°,   pp.   58. 

New  York,  1809. 
Linen,  (J.)     Poems.     12°,  pp.  212.     New  York,  1866. 

—  Poetical  and  Prose  Writings.      12°,   pp.  423.     New  York  and  San 

Francisco,  1865. 

—  Songs  of  the  Seasons  and  other  Poems.      12°,   pp.  vi,   165.     New 

York,  1852. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  147 

Linn,  (J.  B.) 

John  Blair  Linn  was  born  at  Shippensburg,  Pa.,  March  14,  1~~7,  graduated  at  Colum- 
bia  College,  studied  law  for  a  time,  then  theology,  and  then  became  assistant  minister  of 
the  First  Presbyterian  Church,  Philadelphia.  He  died  in  1804.  His  brother-in-law,  the 
novelist,  Charles  Brockden  Brown,  wrote  his  memoir. 

—  Miscellaneous  Works.      12°,  pp.  351.      New  York,  1795. 

—  The  Powers  of  Genius.      1G°,  pp.  127.     Philadelphia,  1801. 

—  Same.     2d  Edition.      16°,  pp.  191.     Philadelphia,  1802. 

—  Same.     16°,  pp.  155.     London,  1804. 

—  Valerian.     A  Narrative  Poem,  intended  in  part  to  describe  the  Early 

Persecutions  of  the  Christians,  etc.     4°,  pp.  xxvi,   97.     Philadel- 
phia,  1805. 

Linton,  (W.  J.)  Ireland  for  the  Irish.  Lg.  12°,  pp.  95.  New  York, 
1867. 

Little,  (Sophia  L.) 

A  daughter  of  Hon.  Asher  Robbins,  she  was  born  at  Newport  in  1799,  and  in  1824 
married  Mr.  William  Little,  Jr.,  of  Boston.  She  has  contributed  many  articles  to  the  peri- 
odicals of  the  day. 

—  Pentecost.     Sq.  16°,  pp.  49.     Newport,  R.  I.,  1869. 

—  The  Branded  Hand.     Commemorative  of  the  Tragedies  at  the  South 

in  the  Winter  of  1844-5.      18°,  pp.  46.     Pawtucket,  R.  L,  1845. 

—  The    Last   Days  of  Jesus,  etc.     2d    Edition.      12°,    pp.  162.     New- 

port, R.  I.,  1877. 

Litchfield  County,  Conn.,  Celebration,  August  13th  and  14th,  1851. 
Several  Poems  in  the  volume,  one  by  Rev.  J.  Pierpont.  pp.  26. 
Lg.  8°,  pp.  212.     Hartford,  1851. 

List,  A,  of  the  Members  of' the  Assembly.  (Anon.)  8°,  pp.  16. 
Albany,  1806. 

Littlefield,  (Mrs.)     The  Wreath.     12°,  pp.  132.     Richmond,  1828. 

Live  Woman  in  the  Mines;  or.  Pike  County  Ahead.  By  "Old 
Block."      (Anon.)      12°,  pp.  36.     New  York,  no  date. 

Livermore,  (Harriet.)  The  Harp  of  Israel.  18°,  pp.  180.  Philadel- 
phia, 1835. 

Livingston,  (Ann  H.  S.)     Sacred  Records.     Abridged  in  Verse.     12°, 
pp.  124.     Philadelphia. 
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148  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

Livingston,  (.1.  II..  D.  D.)     Psalms  and  ITyiniis,  etc.,  for  the  Reformed 
Dutch  C'luircli.      18°,  pp.  010.     Pliihuh'lphia,  1829. 

Livingston,  (Mus.  O.  M.)     Poems.     12°,  pp.  242.     Cambridge,  1868. 

Livingston.  (W.) 

William  Livingston  was  born  at  Albany,  N.  Y.,  graduated  at  Yale  College  1741,  was 
elected  member  of  the  National  Congress  in  1774,  and  was  Governor  of  New  Jersey  from 
1770  to  his  death.     (See  Memoir,  New  York,  1833.) 

—  America.     Sq.  8°,  pp.  12.     New  Haven,  no  date. 

—  Pliilosophic  Solitude.     8°,  pp.  45.     Boston,  17G2. 

—  Same.     3d  Edition.      12°,  pp.  40.     New  York,  no  date. 

—  Same,      loth  Edition.     New  York,  1790. 

Lloyd.    (S.   H.)     Glimpses  of  the    Spirit    Land.      12°,  pp.   145.     New 
York,  1867. 

—  Same.     8°,  pp.  174.     New  York,  1869. 

Locke,  (Mks.  E.  J.)     Daniel   Webster.     A   Rhymed   Eulogy.     Sm.  4°, 
pp.  24.     Boston,   1854. 

Locke,  (Mrs.  J.  E.) 

Jane  Ermina  Stockweatlier  was  born  in  Worthington,  Mass.,  and  has  published  many 
periodical  articles. 

—  Boston  and  Boston  People  in  1850.   .  16°,  pp.  45.     Boston,  1850. 

—  Miscellaneous  Poems.      12°,  pp.  300.     Boston,  1842. 

—  Rachel;  oi-,  The  Little  Mourner.     Sq.  32°,  pp.  16.     Lowell,  1844. 

—  The   Recalled  ;  In  the  Voices  of  the  Past,  and  Poems  of  the  Ideal. 

12°,  pp.  vii,  246.     Boston,  1854. 

Locke,  (Mrs.  M.J.  E.)     Boston.     A  Poem.     8°,  pp.  15.    Boston,  1803. 

LocKERBY,  (E.  N.)     The  Wild  Brier.      16°,  pp.  96.     Charlottetown,  P. 

E.  I.,  1866. 
Lock  wool.,  (J.)     Palermo.     8°,  pp.  36.     New  York,  1861. 
Lodge,  (H.  C.)      Ballads  and  Lyrics.      12°,  pp.  xii,  387.     Boston,  1880. 

Logan,   (C.   A.)     Yankee    Land.     A  Comedy.      12°,    pp.  31.     Boston, 
no  date. 

LoMAX,    (Judith.)     Notes   of  an   American   Lyre.      18°.  pp.  70.     Rich- 
mond, 1813. 

Long,    (Mrs.  Elizabeth  W.)      The    Parallel.     8°,  pp.  8.     Baltimore, 
1848. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  149 


Longfellow,  (H.  W.) 

Henry  Wadsworth  Longfellow  was  born  at  Portland,  Me.,  February  27,  1807.  The 
house  in  which  he  was  born  is  in  the  northeast  section  of  the  city,  and  was  long  known 
as  "The  Stephenson  House."  It  is  now  an  Irish  tenement  house.  He  graduated  at 
Bowdoin  College  in  1S25,  and  studied  law  for  a  short  time.  In  1826,  having  been 
appointed  Professor  of  Modern  Languages  in  Bowdoin  College,  he  went  abroad  and 
spent  three  and  a  half  years  in  fitting  himself  for  the  duties  of  the  chair  to  which  he  had 
been  elected.  He  began  to  teach  in  his  alma  mater  in  1829,  was  married  in  \8'M,  was 
chosen  Professor  of  Belles  Lettres  in  Harvard  College  in  18.35,  went  abroad  the  second 
time,  and  on  his  return  entered  upon  his  task  in  Harvard,  and  continued  at  his  post  for 
twenty  years,  resigning  in  1855,  and  devoting  the  remainder  of  his  life  to  literary  work. 
He  died  at  his  home,  the  famous  "  Craigie  House,"  the  headquarters  of  Gen.  Washing- 
ton, in  Cambridge,  Mass.,  3Iarch  24,  1882.  No  one  author  is  more  largely  represented 
in  the  Harris  Collection  than  Longfellow,  the  number  of  volumes,  including  duplicates 
and  different  editions  of  his  works,  being  not  far  from  eighty.  For  a  full  and  most 
satisfactory  account  of  Longfellow  and  his  works,  see  AUibone's  Dictionary  of  Autliors, 
pp.  1123-30. 

—  Aftermath.     16°,  pp.  144.     Boston.  1873. 

—  Ballads    and    other    Poems.      3d  Edition.      Lg.   8°,   pp.    xxv,    132. 

Cambridge,  1842. 

xxiv,  132. 


Same. 

4th  Edition. 

16°,  pp, 

Same. 

8th  Edition. 

1844. 

Same. 

9th  Edition. 

1845. 

Same. 

10th  Edition. 

1848. 

—  Coplas  de  Don  Jorge  Manrique.      12°,  pp.  vi.,  89.     Boston,  1833. 

At  the  time  this  volume  was  published,  the  title  of  Prof.  Longfellow  was  "  Professor 
of  Modern  Languages  and  Literature  in  Bowdoin  College." 

—  Dante's   Divine   Comedy.     Translated.     8°,  3  vols.     I.  Inferno,  pp. 

vii,   413.      II.  Purgatorio,   pp.  vi,   410.       III.    Paradiso,  pp.  vi, 
452.     Boston,  1867. 

—  Same.      11th  Edition.     8°,  pp.  760.     Boston,  1884. 

—  Estray,  The:  A  Collection  of  Poems.      12°,   pp.  vii,  144.     Boston, 

1847. 

—  Evangeline.     A  Tale  of  Acadie.      12°,  pp.  163.     Boston,  1847. 

—  Same.       2d  Edhion.      1848. 

—  Same.     9th  Edition.     1854. 

—  Same.      12°,  pp.  viii,  112.      Illustrated   with    45    wood   engravings. 

London,  1866. 

—  Excelsior.      12  Illustrations.      12°,  not  paged.     New  York,  1872. 

Published  by  the  Excelsior  Life  Insurance  Company,  of  New  York. 

—  Fl6wer-de-Luce.      With    Illustrations.      Small   4°,  pp.    72.      Boston, 

1867. 


—  Same. 

2  vols, 

—  Same. 

2  vols 

—  Same. 

2  vols, 

150                                    HARRIS    COLLECTION. 
LONGFEI.LOAV,    (11.   W.)  Co)ltiliHe(l . 

—  Kavanagli.     A  Tale.      16%  pp.  188.     Boston.  1849. 

Not  a  poem.    A  few  poetical  extracts  in  the  volume. 

—  Poems.      18°,  pp.  124.      Lonilon.  no  date. 

—  Same,     lllustvatecl    by    D.    Iluntinjrton.       8°,    pp.    387.      Philadel- 

phia, 1845. 

12°,  pp.  vi,  475  ;  452.     Boston,  1850. 

16°,  pp.  xiv,  475  ;  452.      Boston,  1856. 

18°,  pp.  375;  467.     Boston,  1857.     Blue  and  Gold 
Series. 

—  Same.     2  vols.      18°,  pp.  420  ;  405.     Boston,  1864.     Blue  and  Gold 

Series. 

—  Editor.     Poems    of    Places.     England.     3  vols.     (Vol.  I.  wanting.) 

18°,  pp.  ix,  264;  x,  280.     Boston,  1876. 

—  Ireland.      18°,  pp.  ix,  260.     Same  place  and  date. 

—  Scotland.     2  vols.      18°,  pp.  x,  246  ;  xi,  266.     Same  place  and  date. 

—  France.     2  vols.     18°,  pp.  viii,  265  ;  vii,  266.     Boston,  1877. 

—  Poems  on  Slavery.     2d  Edition.      12°,  pp.  31.     Cambridge,  1842. 

—  Same.     3d  Edition.     Lg.  8°,  pp.  31.     Cambridge,  1843. 

—  Poetical  Works.     16°,  pp.  256.     London  and  New  York,  1854. 

—  Same.      16°,  pp.  256.     Edinburgh,  London  and  New  York,  1855. 

—  Same.     2  vols.      18°,  pp.  viii,  399  ;   322.     Leipzig,  1856. 

—  Tales  of  a  AVayside  Inn.     12°,  pp.  v,  225.     Boston,  1863. 

—  Same.      16°,  pp.  v,  140.     London,  1864. 

—  Same.     With   Illustrations  by  John  Gilbert.     8°,  pp.  160.     Boston, 

1866. 

—  Same.     Illustrated  with  15  engravings  on  Avood.     12°,  pp.  vi,  119. 

London,  1867. 

—  The  Belfrey  of  Bruges,  etc.     2d  Edition.     12°,  pp.  vii,  151.     Boston, 

1846. 

—  Same.     3d  Edition.     12°,  pp.  vii,  151.     Boston,  1846. 

—  Same.    4th  Edition.     Lg.  8°.     Cambridge,  1846. 

—  The  Courtship  of  Miles  Standish,  etc.    12°,  pp.  iv,  215.     Boston,  1859. 

—  Same.     AVith    25    Illustrations    by  John    Gilbert,   engraved   by  the 

Brothers    Dalziel.     Lg.    12°,  pp.   119.     London,  1859. 

—  The  Divine  Tragedy.     16°,  pp.  iv,  150.  '  Boston,  1871. 

—  The  Golden  Legend.      16°,  pp.  iv,  336.     Boston,  1851. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  151 

Longfellow,  (H.  AV.)  —  Continued. 

—  The  Golden  Legend.      16%  pp.  iv,  336.     Boston,  1856. 

—  Same,      1857. 

—  The  Masque  of  Pandoi-a,  etc,      16°,  pp.  iv,  146.     Boston,  1875. 

—  The  New  England  Tragedies.     I.  John  Endieott,     11.  Giles  Corey, 

of  the  Salem  Farms.     16°,  pp.  170.     Boston,  1868. 

—  The  Seaside  and  the  Fireside.      16°,  pp.  iv,  141.     Boston,  1850. 

—  The  Song  of  Hiawatha.      16°,  pp.  iv,  316.     Boston,  1855. 

This  copy  of  Hiawatha  (there  are  several  others  in  tlie  collection)  belongs  to  the 
Anthony  part  of  the  "  Harris  Collection."  The  original  cover  in  the  volume  was 
removed,  or  it  was  procured  in  sheets,  and  some  sixty  blank  pages  added.  Upon  these 
blank  pages  have  been  pasted  clippings  from  the  papers.  Most  of  them  are  parodies  on 
Hiawatha,  and  some  are  favorable  criticisms.  For  future  reference  these  clippings  will 
be  invaluable. 

—  The  Song  of  Hiawatha.     Tenth  thousand.      18°,  pp.  iv,  252.     Lon- 

don, 1856. 

—  The    Spanish   Student.     A  Play  in  three   parts.     12°,   pp.  vi,   183. 

Cambridge,  1843. 

—  Same.       3d  Edition.  1843. 

—  Same.     4th  P^dition.  1843. 

—  Same.     6th  Edition.  1844. 

—  Voices  of  the    Night,  etc.     2d    Edition.      12°,   pp.  vi,    144.     Cam- 

bridge, 1840. 

—  Same.         3d  Edition.     Lg.  8°,  pp.  vi,  144. 

—  Same.       4th  Edition.      12°,  pp.  vi,  144. 

—  Same.       8th  Edition.     12°,  pp.  vi,  144.     1843. 

—  Same.     10th  Edition.      16°,  pp.  vi,  144.      1844. 

—  Same.      18°,  pp.  xxviii,  140.     London,  1844. 

Look,  (H.  M.)  A  Poem  for  the  New  Year.  12°,  pp.  4.  Pontiac, 
Mich.,  1865. 

Look  Before  Ye  Loup  ;  or,  A  Healin'  Sa'  for  the  Crackit  Crowns 
OF  Country  Politicians.  By  Tarn  Thrum,  {pseticl.)  18°,  pp. 
40.     Philadelphia,  1798. 

Lord,  (W.  W.) 

William  W.  Lord  was  born  in  Western  New  York  not  far  from  the  year  1818,  and 
became  Rector  of  a  church  (Protestant  Episcopal)  in  Vicksburg,  Miss. 

—  Christ  in  Hades.     12°,  pp.  xv,  183.     New  York,  1851. 

—  Poems.     12°,  pp.  158.     New  York  and  Philadelphia,  1845. 


152  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

LoRiNG,  (F.  W.)     Tho  Boston  Dip,  etc.     Sq.  1G°,  pp.  63.     Boston,  1871. 

LOOSJES.  (A.)  Gedenkzuil,  torgelegenlu'id  der  Vry-verklaaring.  Noord- 
Amorica.     8°,  pp.  49.     Amsterdam,  1782.     A  Dutch  Poem. 

The  following,  separately  paged,  is  in  the  same  volume  : 

BYLAAGEN  TER  OrHKLDEHING  VAN  DE  GEDKNKZUL  DER  VKYVEKKLAARING  VAN 
PE  DERTIEX  VEUEENIGDE  STAATEN  VEN  NORD  AMERICA  HESTAANDE  IN  REQUESTEN, 
BESCHTKN,  RESOIATIEN,   ENZ.     8°,  pp.  176. 

Thi8  volume  was  presented  to  Jlr.  Harris  by  John  Carter  Brown,  Esq.,  March  15, 1873. 
At  the  end  of  the  volume  are  two  songs  printed  in  English.  The  first  has  this  title  :  "  A 
Song,  made  by  a  Dutch  Lady  at  the  Hague,  for  the  Sailors  of  the  VIII  American  vessels 
at  Amsterdam."  The  title  of  the  second  is  :  "  Another  Song,  made  by  a  Dutch  Gentleman 
at  Amsterdam,  to  be  sung  by  the  same,  on  the  4th  of  July,  1779."  Both  maybe  sung  to  the 
tune  "  America." 

The  following  note  is  appended :  "  This  is  a  true  copy  of  two  Songs,  made  at  the 
Hague  and  at  Amsterdam,  with  a  most  hearty  wish  that  they  may  add  fuel  to  the  precious 
fire  which  is  burning  in  every  true  .-Iwerican  heart."  Attest:  "The  steady  friends  of  Amer- 
ica at  the  Hague." 

"  Endure,  dear  Brethren,  what  remains  of  labour, 
To  get  the  Part  of  Freedom's  heav'nly  favour." 

Lost  Spade,  The  ;  or.  The  Grave  Digger's  Revenge,  With  Appen- 
dix. A  great  Political,  Martial,  Serio-Comic  Legendary,  Roman- 
tic and  Farcial  Drama.  Written  by  the  Happy  Democratic  Fam- 
ily expressly  for  the  Peace  Democracy.  16°,  pp.  13.  New  York, 
1864. 

Loud,  (Mrs.  M.  St.  Leon.) 

Marguerite  St.  L.  Biirstow  was  born  at  Bradford  county.  Pa.  In  182-1  she  married  Mr. 
Loud,  of  Philadelphia.  She  has  made  many  contributions  to  the  periodical  literature  of 
the  day. 

—  Wayside  Flowers,      12°,  pp.  xii,  276.     Boston,  1851. 
Louisa,     A  Domestic  Tale,     (Anon,)     8°,  pp.  4.     No  place,  no  date. 

Love,  (C.)  Death  of  General  George  Washington,  12°,  Alex- 
andria, Va,,  1800. 

Love  of  Nature,  An  Anniversary  Poem,  delivered  before  the  I,  K,  A. 
of  Washington.     16°,  pp.  12.     Hartford,- 1837, 

LOVELL,    (J.) 

John  Lovell,  the  famous  "Master  Lovell "  of  the  Boston  Latin  School,  was  born  in 
1718,  graduated  at  Harvard,  and  for  more  than  forty  years,  1734-75,  was  Master  of  the 
Latin  School,  Boston.  Being  a  Loyalist,  he  went  with  the  British  to  Halifax,  where  he 
died  in  1778. 


AMERICAN    POETET.  153 

LovELL,   (J.) — Gontinued. 

—  A  Tribute  to  Washington  for   February  22,  1800.     Lg.  12°,  pp.  15. 

Troy,  1800. 

—  The  Seasons.     Read  June  26,  1765,  the   day  of '  the  Annual  Visita- 

tion of  the  Schools  in  Boston.     Lg.  12°,  pp.  8.     Boston,  1765. 

—  Washington's  Birthday.     Sm.  4°,  pp.  55.     Albany,  1812. 

Low,  (S.) 

Samuel  Low  was  born  December  12, 1765. 

—  Poems.     2  vols.     12°,  pp.  147,  168.     New  York,  1800. 

—  Winter  Displayed.     12°,  pp.  40.     New  York,  1784. 

—  Ode,  July  4,   1800,  sung  in    St.  Paul's   Church,    before  the  General 

Society  of  Mechanics  and  Tradesmen,  etc.      12°,  pp.  3.     The  vol- 
ume contains  the  Oration  of  M.  L.  Davis.     New  York,  1800. 
Lowe,  (Mrs.  Charles.) 

Martha  A.  Perry  was  born  in  Keene,  N.  H.,  and  became  the  wife  of  Rev.  Charles 
Lowe,  and  for  many  years  was  a  resident  in  Sonierville,  Mass. 

—  The  Olive  and  The  Pine.     12°,  pp.  156.     Boston,  1859. 
Lowell.     The  Offering.     Vol.  I.     8°,  pp.  380.     Lowell,  no  date. 

Original  articles,  some  of  them  poems,  written  by  females  actively  employed  in  the 
mills. 

Lowell,  (J.  R.) 

James  Russell  Lowell  was  born  at  Cambridge,  Mass.,  February  22,  1819,  graduated  at 
Harvard  College  in  1838,  studied  law  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  but  chose  the  profession 
of  letters,  and  in  1855  succeeded  Professor  Longfellow  in  the  department  of  Modern  Lit- 
erature in  his  alma  mater;  was  editor  of  "  The  Atlantic  Monthly  "  1857-62.  He  was  Uni- 
ted .States  Minister  to  Spain  1878-80,  and  to  the  Court  of  St.  James  1880-85.  He  is  recog- 
nized as  one  of  tlie  most  cultivated  and  accomplished  scholars  of  America.  The  signatures 
under  which  he  has  written  are  "J.  R.  L.,"  "  Hosea  Bigelow,"  "  Elmwood,"  "  Columbus 
Nye,"  "Homer  Wilbur,"  and  "A  Wonderful  Quiz."  »His  residence  at  this  date  (1886)  is 
Cambridge. 

—  A  Year's  Life.      16°,  pp.  182.     Boston,  1841. 

—  Conversations  on  some  of  the  Old  Poets.      16°,  pp.  viii,  263.      Cam- 

bridge, 1845. 

—  Fable  for  Critics.      12°,  pp.  80.     New  York,  1848. 

—  Poems.      3d  Edition.      12°,  pp.  279.      Cambridge,  1844. 

—  Same.     2d  Series.      12°,  pp.  184.     Cambridge  and  Boston,  1848. 

—  Same.     In  2  vols.     12°,  pp.  xii,  251,  254.     Bo.ston,  1849. 

—  Same.     In  2  vols.      18°,  pp.  xi,  315,  322.     Boston,  1861.     Blue  and 

Gold  Series. 


154  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

LowKLL,  (J.  R.) — Continued. 

—  The     Biglow    Papers.       (Homer    Wilbur,   pseud.)       12°,   pp.   163. 

Cambridge  and  New  York,  1848. 

—  Same.     Lg.  18°,  pp.140.     London,  1859. 

This  edition  has  a  preface  by  the  author  of  "  Tom  Brown's  School  Days." 

—  Same.     2d  Series.      12°,  pp.  Ixxvi,  258.     Boston,  1867. 

—  The  Cathedral.      12°,  pp.  53.     Boston,  1870. 

—  The  Vision  of  Sir  Launfal.      12°,  pp.  27.     Cambridge,  1848. 

—  Same.     2d  Edition.      1849. 

—  Same.     4th  Edition.      1851. 

—  Three  Memorial  Poems.     Sq.  12°,  pp.  92.     Boston,  1877. 

—  Under  the  Willows,  etc.      12°,  pp.  viii,  286.     Boston,  1869. 

Lowell,  (R.  T.  S.)  Fresh  Hearts  that  Failed  Three  Thousand  Years 
Ago  ;  Avith  Other  Things.      16°,  pp,  vi,  121.     Boston,  1860. 

Lucas,  (A.)     The  Shaving  Mill.     12°,  pp.  21.     Freetown,  1831. 

Lucas,  (D.  B.)  The  Wreath  of  Eglantine,  etc.  12°,  pp.  169.  Balti- 
more, 1869. 

LuCREziA  ;  OR,  The  Bag  of  Gold.  A  Dramatic  Sketch.  (Anon.) 
18°,  pp.  82.     Philadelphia,  no  date. 

LuMSDEN,    (C.)      Mountain    Buds    and    Blossoms.       12°,    pp.   viii,    204. 

Petersburg,  Va.,  1825. 
LuN-T,  (G.) 

George  Lunt  was  born  at  Newburyport,  Mass.,  in  1803,  graduated  at  Harvard  College 
in  1824,  became  a  lawyer  and  practiced  in  his  native  town.  In  ISiS  he  removed  to  Boston, 
and  was  appointed  by  President  Taylor,  United  States  Attorney  for  the  District  of  Massa- 
chusetts, 1849-53.    He  died  May  17,  1885. 

—  Culture.     12°,  pp.  44.    'Boston,  1843. 

—  Poems.      12°,  pp.  160.     New  York,  1839. 

—  Lyric  Poems.     12°,  pp.  iv,  108.     Boston,  1854. 

—  The  Dove  and  the  Eagle.      12°,  pp.  27.     Boston,  1851. 
_  The  Grave  of  Byron,  etc.      18°,  pp.  81.     Boston,  1826. 

Lute,  ( .)     Poems.      18°,  pp.  204.     Dayton,  Ohio,  1858. 

LuTTON,  (Anne.)     Poems.     12°,  pp.  136.     New  York,  1842. 

Lyde,  (A.  F.) 

Augustus  Foster  Lyde  was  born  at  Wilmington,  N.  C,  February  4,  1813,  graduated  at 
Washington,  now  Trinity,  College,  Hartford,  in  1830,  with  the  honors  of  his  class,  entered 


AMERICAN    POETKY.  ,  155 

Lyde,  (A.  F.)  —  Continued. 

the  Protestant  Episcopal  Theological  Seminary  in  1831,  taking  the  usual  course  of  study  in 
that  institution.  He  decided  to  offer  himself  as  a  missionary  to  China.  The  Sabbath 
after  his  graduation  he  was  ordained  Deacon  in  St.  Thomas's  Church,  New  York,  by 
Bishop  Brownell.  His  plans  for  future  labor  were  frustrated  by  illness,  which  proved 
fatal,  his  death  occurring  November  19,  1834. 

—  Buds  of  Spring.     Poetical  Remains,  with  Addenda  by  Thomas  H. 

Vail.     12°,  pp.  xliii,  149.     Boston,  1838. 

Lynch,  (Anne  C.) 

Anne  Charlotte  Lynch  was  born  at  Bennington,  Vt.  She  was  of  Irish  descent,  her 
father  being  an  active  participant  in  the  rebellion  of  1798.  After  an  imprisonment  of  four 
years  he  came  to  this  country.  His  daughter  was  educated  in  Albany,  removed  to  Provi- 
dence, where,  in  1841,  she  edited  the  "  Rhode  Island  Book."  In  1855  she  married  Mr.  Vin- 
cenzo  Botta,  an  Italian  statesman.    She  died  November  16,  1870. 

—  Poems.     With  Illustrations.     8°,  pp.  vi,  189.     New  York,  1849. 

—  Same.     New  Edition.     8°,  pp.  203.     New  York,  1853. 

—  The   Rhode    Island   Book.     Prose  and  Poetry.      12°,  pp.  viii,  352. 

Providence,  1841. 
Lyons,   (J.  G.,  D.D.)       Christian    Songs.      8°,  pp.  59.     Philadelphia, 

1848. 
Lyrics.     By  W.  A.  W.      (Anon.)     12°,  pp.  59.     Boston,  1841. 

Lyrics,  Modern  American.  12°,  pp.  308.  Edited  by  Carl  Knortz  and 
Otto  Dickmann.     Leipzig  and  Boston,  1880. 

LuCKEY,  (S.,  D.  D.)  Ethic  Hymns,  etc.  18°,  pp.  132.  Rochester,  N. 
Y.,  1868. 

Lyons,  (J.  G.)  Christian  Songs.  8°,  pp.  76.  4th  Edition.  Philadel- 
phia, 1849. 

—  Same.     1861. 

Lyrics.  Words  by  W.  H.  Bellamy.  Music  by  C.  AV.  Glover.  8°,  pp. 
51.     New  York,  1853. 

Lyte,  (E.  O.)      School-Room  Songs.     8°,  pp.  48.     Philadelphia. 

Macbeth,  (J.  W.  V.)  The  Might  and  Mirth  of  Literature.  A  Treatise 
on  Figurative  Language.     16°,  pp.  xxxvi,  542.     New  York,  1875. 

McBride,  (F.)     The   Robber:    A  Drama.     18°,  pp.  18.     New  York, 
1842. 
23 


156  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

M'Cabe,  (J.  C.)     Scraps.      12°,  pp.  192.     Richmond,  1835. 

McCauk,  (W,  G.)      Keal  and  Ideal.     8°,  pp.  22.     Richmond,  Va.,  1861. 

McCaleh,  (Mary  Hunt.)     Poems.     12°,  pp.  310.     New  York,  1884. 

McCall,  (J.  C.)     Fleurette,  etc.      18°,  pp.  68.     Philadelpliia,  1828. 

—  The  Troubadom",  etc.      12°,  pp.  ix,  64.     Philadelphia,  1822. 

McCall,  (J.  C.  M.)     Savanarola.     8°,  pp.  77.     Harrisburg,  1831. 
McCoKD,  (Louisa  S.) 

Louisa  S.  Cheves,  daughter  of  Hon.  Langdon  Cheves,  was  born  at  Columbia,  S.  C,  ia 
December,  1810,  married  Colonel  D.  M.  McCord  in  1840,  a  distinguished  lawyer  of  Colum- 
bia. Her  prose  and  poetical  productions  have  received  warm  commendation.  During  the 
civil  war  her  residence  was  in  Columbia,  where  slie  performed  excellent  service  in  the 
hospitals. 

—  Caius   Gracchus.     A  Tragedy  in   Five  Acts.     12°,  pp.  128.     New- 

York,  1851. 

McDermott,  (H.  F.) 

Hugh  F.  McDermott  was  born  in  1833,  and  wrote  under  the  signature  of  "  Pax."  He 
is  a  journalist  residing  in  Boston. 

—  Lavona.      12°,  pp.  75.     New  York,  1860. 
McDonald,  (Mrs.  Mary  Noel.) 

Mary  Noel  Bleecker  was  born  in  New  York  City.  Her  poetical  effusions  were  pub- 
lished in  the  Netu  York  Mirror .  She  was  married,  first  to  P.  E.F.  McDonald  in  1834,  and 
in  1848  to  Mr.  Henry  Meigs,  of  New  York.  She  has  contributed  much  to  periodical  liter- 
ature. 

—  Poems.     8°,  pp.  208.     New  York,  1844. 

McDougal,  (F.  G.)      The   Genius  of  American    Liberty.      8°,  pp.  32. 
San  Francisco,  18G7. 

Maceuen,  (M.)      a   Mosaic   from   Italy.       12°,  pp.  69.     Philadelphia, 

1867. 

M'Henry,  (J.,  M.  D.) 

James  M'Henry,  of  Philadelphia,  who  wrote  under  the  signature  of  "  Solomon 
Second-Sight,"  was  a  contributor  to  the  "American  Quarterly  Review,"  1827-37.  His 
writings  were  severely  criticised  in  "  Blackwood's  Magazine." 

—  The  Antediluvians.     In  Ten  Works.      18°,  pp.  xv,  272.     Philadel- 

phia, 1840. 

—  Feelings  of  Age,  etc.     24°,  pp.  36.     Philadelphia,  1830. 

—  The  Pleasures  of  Friendship,  etc.      12°,  pp.  96.     Philadelphia,  1825. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  157 

M'Henry,  (J.,  M.  'D.)  —  Gontmued. 

—  The  Pleasures  of  Friendship,  etc.     18°,  pp.  216.     Phihidelphia,  1836. 

—  Waltham.     A  Revohitionary  Tale.      18°,  pp.  70.     New  York,  1823. 

M'JiLTON,  (J.  N.)     Poems.      12°,  pp.  xi,  360.     Boston,  1840. 

—  The  Triumph  of  Liberty.      Poem.     July   4,    1838.      12°,   pp.   29. 

Baltimore,  1838. 

McJiMSEY,  (W.)     Hebrew  Melodies.     8°,  pp.  260.      New  York,  1859. 

—  The  Lessons  of  Nature  and  of  Life.     8°,  pp.  20.     Nyack,  1867. 

—  The  Memory  of  the  Sabbath.     8°,  pp.  96.     Baltimore,  1837. 

—  Thompsonville ;  or,  The  Valley  of  the    Connecticut.       16°,   pp.    22. 

New  York,  1847. 

Mack,  (E.,  M.D.)     The  Cat-Fight.     A  Mock  Heroic  Poem.     12°,  pp. 
276.     New  York,  1824. 
Dr.  Ebenezer  Mack  wrote  a  Life  of  General  La  Fayette.    12°,  Ithaca,  X.  Y.,  1841. 

Mack,  (R.)      Kyle   Stuart,  etc.     Vol.  I.      18°,  pp.  200.      Columbia,  T., 

1834. 
Mackellar,  (T.) 

Thomas  Mackellar  was  born  in  the  city  of  New  York,  August  12, 1812.  After  a  partial 
education  in  a  Classical  Academy,  he  entered  the  printing  ofBce  of  the  Harpers.  Early  in 
life  he  developed  a  taste  for  literary  pursuits,  and  with  other  lads  in  New  Y'ork  organized 
an  Association,  from  which  sprang  some  able  lawyers,  such  as  Chief  Justice  Charles  P. 
Daly,  and  other  men  of  some  note.  Having  removed  to  Philadelphia  in  1833,  he  suggested 
and  assisted  in  organizing  a  similar  society  in  that  city.  After  serving  as  a  proof-reader 
and  foreman  in  the  type  and  stereotype  foundry  of  Lawrence  Johnson,  Philadelphia,  for 
several  years,  he  was  admitted  into  the  firm  in  ISIS.  He  began,  at  once,  the  preparation 
of  the  unique  Specimen  Books  which  made  the  house  known  world-wide,  and  finally 
brought  it  to  the  liighest  ijlace  among  the  type-foundries  of  the  world.  He  began  and  edi- 
ted a  trade  periodical  in  1855.  tlie  "  Typographical  Advertiser,"  tlie  forerunner  of  a  multi- 
tude of  its  class,  whicli  is  still  published  under  the  control  of  his  sou.  He  prepared  the 
"American  Printer,"  which  has  reached  its  sixteenth  edition.  In  1884  the  degree  of 
Ph.  D.  was  conferred  upon  him  by  Wooster  University,  Ohio.  Mr.  Mackellar's  present 
residence  (188fi)  is  Philadelphia. 

—  Hymns  and  a   few  Metrical   Psalms.      12°,  pp.  169.     Philadelphia, 

1883. 

"  Some  of  the  hymns  in  this  volume,"  says  the  author,  "  were  written  before  a  busy 
life  had  passed  its  noontide;  others  when  the  rays  of  the  westering  sun  were  falling 
slantwise.  The  latest  were  the  outcome  (as  well  as  the  alleviation)  of  times  of  anguish 
and  bereavement." 

—  Rhymes  Atwcen-Times.      12°,  pp.  336.     Philadelphia,  1873. 

—  Tarn's    Fortnight    Ramble,   etc.       12°,    pp.   ix,   216.      Philadelphia, 

1847. 


158  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

M'KiNNOX,    (J.   I).)      DescTiptive    Poems.       12°,    pp.   79.     New  York, 
1802. 

McKnight,  (G.)      Life    and    Faith    Sonnets.     Sq.   12°,  pp.  136.     New 
York,  1878. 

M'LAlKillLIN,   (E.  A.) 

Edward  A.  M'Laughlin  was  born  at  West  Stamford,  Conn.,  January  9,  1798.  In  early 
life  lie  was  a  sailor,  and  passed  through  many  adventures;  then,  for  three  years  and  a 
half,  was  in  the  United  States  Navy,  being  discharged  from  the  service  on  account  of  ill 
health. 

—  The   LoA'ers  of  the   Deep.     In   Four  Cantos,  etc.      12°,  pp.  x,  312. 

Cincinnati,  1841. 

McLellan,  (I.) 

Isaac  McLellan  was  born  at  Portland,  Me.,  in  1S06,  graduated  at  Bowdoin  College  in 
1826,  having  among  his  classmates  the  celebrated  S.  S.  Prentiss,  of  Mississippi.  Having 
been  admitted  to  the  bar,  he  practiced  his  profession  for  a  few  years  in  Boston,  and 
engaged  in  journalistic  work.  At  the  end  of  a  two-years'  tour  in  Europe  he  returned 
home,  abandoned  his  profession,  and  returned  to  a  country  life.  "  Devoted,  as  ever 
before,  to  field  sports,"  says  Professor  Packard,  "  he  wrote  on  subjects  which  they  sug- 
gested. This  taste  especially  made  him  familiar  with  resorts  on  the  Massachusetts  coast, 
and  brought  him  into  intercourse  with  lovers  of  the  sports,  an(%  especially  with  Daniel 
Webster  at  his  summer  retreat  at  M.arshfield,  where  he  passed  two  seasons  at  one  of  the 
farm-houses  of  the  statesman.  He  removed  to  New  York,  exercising  his  inveterate  pas- 
sion in  its  neighborhood,  p.assing  a  part  of  the  season  for  several  years  on  the  Virginia  and 
North  Carolina  coasts."    For  several  years  his  residence  was  at  Greenport,  L.  I. 

—  Mt.  Auburn,  etc.      12°,  pp.  156.     Boston,  1843. 

—  The  Year,  with_  other   Foems.     By  the  Author  of  "  The  Fall  of  the 

Indians,"  etc.     A  New  Y^ear's  Gift.     8°,  pp.  60.     Boston,  1832. 

McLellan,  (R.  C.)      The  Foundling.     A  Drama.     18°,  pp.  68.     Phil- 
adelphia, 1839. 

McMasters,  (Julia  R.)      Silver  Pictures.      12°,  pp.  64.     Philadelphia, 
1856. 

MacMullen,  (J.)     Poem  before  Alumni   Association  of  Columbia  Col- 
lege, October  27,  1858.     8°,  pp.  31.     New  York,  1858. 

McNair,    (John,  D.D.)      Eighty  Original  Poems,  Secular  and   Sacred. 
12°,  pp.  263.     Lancaster,  Pa.,  1865. 

M'Naughton,  (J.  H.) 

John  H.  M'Naughton,  a  poet  of  Caledonia,  N.  Y. 

—  Babble  Brook  Songs.     12°,  pp.  235.     Boston,  1864. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  159 

Macon,  (J.  A.)     Uncle   Gabe   Tucker;  or,  Reflection,  Song  and  Senti- 
ment in  the  Quarters.     12°,  pp.  181.     Philadelphia,  1883. 

Madden,  (R.  R.,  M.  D.) 

Dr.  Madden  was  born  in  Ireland.  He  is  known  as  an  author  and  traveller.  (See  AUi- 
bone,  p.  1199.) 

The  poems  in  this  volume  were  translated  from  the  Spanish  by  Dr.  M.  They  were 
written  by  a  shive  who  had  been  liberated  in  the  island  of  Cuba.  An  interesting  autobi- 
ography of  the  author  precedes  the  poems.  Dr.  M.  has  also  introduced  into  the  volume  two 
poems  of  his  own,  entitled  "The  Sugar  Estate,"  and"  The  Slave  Trade  Merchant."  A 
valuable  Appendix,  containing  matter  having  reference  to  slavery  in  Cuba,  may  be  found 
in  the  volume.    There  is  also  a  Glossary  of  Creole  terms  in  common  use  in  Cuba. 

—  Poems.     8°,  pp.  v,  145.     London,  1840. 

Mad-House  Lyrics.      (By  Cole,  j^se^td  ?)     Vol.1.     18°,  pp.  48.     Con- 
cord, N.  H.,  1852. 

Maelstrom,  The.      (Anon.)     Entered  by  John  Hammond.     8°,  pp.  68. 

San  Francisco,  1861. 
Maffitt,  (J,  N.) 

John  Newland  Maffitt,  a  noted  Metliodist  preacher,  was  born  at  Dublin,  Ireland,  in 
1794,  came  to  the  United  States  in  1819,  and  attained  gre.it  celebrity  as  a  preacher.  In 
18.33  he  was  appointed  associate  editor  of  the  Western  Methodist.  Nashville,  Tenn.  In 
1837  he  was  chosen  Professor  of  Elocution  in  La  Grange  College,  Ala.  He  died  at  Mobile 
in  1850. 

—  Ireland:    A  Poem.      12°,  pp.  79.     Louisville,  1839. 

—  Literary  and   Religious   Sketches.     Poems   in  the  volume.      12°,  pp. 

240.     New  York,  1832. 
Magazine,   Columbian.     The    number   for  July,   1848,   contains  Anna 
Blackwell's  "  Tambounna,"  Mrs.  Sigourney's  "The  ^i^migrant," 
and  Wallace's  "  Perditi."     4°. 

Magdalen  Report,  The.     A  Farce.      (Peter  Pendergrass,  Sr.,  j:)sew(?.) 
12°,  pp.  25.     New  York,  1831. 

Mahomet.     (Anon.)      A   Bouquet  for  Jenny  Lind.     8°,  pp.  39.     New 

York,  1850. 
Maid  OF  Midian.     A  Tragedy.      (Anon.)     3d  Edition.     12°,  pp.  iv,  36. 

Philadelphia,  1836. 
Man,    (T.) 

a  native  of  Rhode  Island,  familiarly  known  as  "  Tom  Man." 

—  Woonsocket,  A  Picture  of;  or,  The   Truth  in  its  Nudity,  etc.      12°, 

pp.  108.     No  place,  1835. 

A  few  poems  in  the  volume. 


160  HARKIS    COLLECTION. 

Mangxbi,  (A.  W.)      Myrtle  Leaves;  or,  Tokens  at  the  Tomb.      12°,  pp. 
132.     Raleigh,  N.  C,  1864. 

Manners,  (G.)     The  Conflagration.     4°,  pp.  18,     Boston,  1825. 

This  poem  was  written  andpublislied  for  tlio  benefit  of  the  sufferers  by  disastrous  fires 
in  the  Province  of  New  Brunswick. 

Manners,  The,   of  thk  Times.      (Philadelphiensis.)     Sq.   12°,  pp.  16. 
Philadelplda,  1762. 

Manning,  (J.  B.) 

Joseph  Belles  Manning  was  born  at  Gloucester  (now  Rockport),  Mass.,  in  1787,  grad- 
uated at  Harvard  in  180S,  and,  for  several  years,  was  a  lawyer  in  Ipswich,  Mass.,  and 
Gloucester.    lie  died  in  Ipswich  in  1854. 

—  The  Voice  of  Letters.      12°,   pp.  vii,   135.     Boston  and  Cambridge, 

1844. 
Mansfield,  (J.)     Hope.     Poem  delivered  at  Commencement,  Harvard, 
July  8,  1800.     18°,  pp.  10.     Fitchburg,  1871. 

March,  (D.) 

Daniel  March,  D.  D.,  was  born  at  Millbury,  Mass.,  July  21,  1816,  graduated  at  Yale  in 
1840,  was  ordained  in  1845,  and  has  been  pastor  of  Congregational  and  Presbyterian 
churches.  Among  his  published  writings  are  "Night  Scenes  in  the  Bible,"  "  Walks  and 
Hours  of  Jesus,"  etc.  He  is  at  this  time  (1886)  pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church  in 
Woburn,  Mass. 

Yale.     Phi  Beta  Kappa  Poem.     8°,  pp.  12.     New  Haven,  1846. 

—  Yankee  Land  and  the  Yankee.     A  Poem  delivered  at  the  Centennial 

Celebration  of  the  Connecticut  Historical  Society,  April  21,  1840. 
12°,  pp.  33.     Hartford,  1840. 

March  Flowers.     (Miss  E.  C.  Greene[?])     12°,  pp.  36.     Providence, 

1836. 
March  of  Science.     (Anon.)     12°,  pp.  36.     Philadelphia,  1846. 

Marie,  (P.)      A    Midsummer's   Fete    at  Woodland   Hall.      12°,  pp.  30. 
New  York,  1850. 

—  A  Tribute  to  the  Fair.     Comprising  a  Collection  of  Vers  de  Societe. 

12°,  pp.  xiii,  253.     New  York,  1864. 

—  The  Bandit's  Daughter.      12°,  pp.  54.     New  York,  1834. 

Marriott,  (J.)     Poems.     18°,  pp.  141.     New  Bedford,  1805. 
Markoe,  (P.) 

Peter  Markoe  wrote  under  the  signature  of  "^  Native  of  Algiers."    He  died  in  Phila- 
delphia in  1792. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  161 

Markoe,  (P.)  —  Continued. 

—  Miscellaneous  Poems.     12°,  pp.  30.     Philadelphia,  1787. 

—  The  Patriot  Chief.     8°,  pp.  70.      Philadelphia,  1783. 

—  Reconciliations.     Comic  Opera.      12°,  pp.  48.     Philadelphia,  1790. 

—  The  Times.     8°,  pp.  iv,  22.     Baltimore,  1788. 

Two  copies  in  the  Collection. 

Marks,  (E.,  M.  D.)      Elfreide  of  Guldal.     A  Scandinavian  Legend,  etc. 
12°,  pp.  vi,  186.     New  York,  1850. 

Markwell,  (W.  R.  S.)  On  Parole.  From  the  Spanish  of  Moraton. 
4°,  pp.  33.      The  original  MS.     No  place,  no  date. 

Marsden,  (J.)     Leisure  Hours.      12°,  pp.  160.     New  York,  1842. 

Marsh,  (Mrs.  George  P.) 

Constance  Crane,  tlie  wife  of  Hon.  George  P.  Marsh,  was  born  at  Berkcly,  Mass.,  in 
1816.  Slie  translated  from  the  German,  among  other  things,  "  The  Halig;  or.  The  Sheep- 
fold  in  tlie  Waters,"  etc. 

—  Wolfe  of  the  Knoll,  etc.      12°,  pp.  327.     New  York,  1860. 
Marsh,  (W.)     England,  etc.     12°,  pp.  112.     New  York,  1839. 

Marshall,  (H.)     The  Aliens.     Occasioned  by  the  Alien   Bill  before  the 
Senate,    May    15,    1798.       8°,  pp.  v,   71.       Philadelphia,    1798.  , 
Rare. 

Martin,  (A.  LL.  D.,  supposed  to  be  the  author  of.)  A  Ncav  Scene 
Interesting  to  the  Citizens  of  the  United  States  of  America.  Addi- 
tional to  the  Historical  Play  of  Columbus.  8°,  pp.  8.  Philadel- 
phia, 1798. 

Martin,  (J.  L.) 

Mr.  Martin  was  for  some  time  Cliarge  d'Affaires  of  the  United  States  to  the  Pontifical 
States.    He  died  at  Rome ;  date  not  learned. 

—  Native  Bards.     A  Satirical  Effusion,  etc.     12°.     Philadelphia,  1831. 

Martin  Van   Buren.      A  Miniature  of.     (Anon.)     18°,   pp.   54.     No 

place,  no  date. 
Martyn,  (Mrs.  S.  T.)     lone.     A  Dramatic  Sketch.     8°,  pp.  35.     No 

place,  no  date. 
Mary's  Vision.     (Anon.)      16°,  pp.  180.     Hartford,  1874. 
Mason,  (H.  B.)     Poem.     Senior  Class,  Yale.     Presentation  Day,  June 

29,  1870.     8°,  pp.  15.     New  Haven,  1870. 


162  HARRIS    COLLECTIOxV. 

Masonky,  FuEE.     By  a  Citizen  of  Massachusetts.      (Anon.)     A  Poem  in 
Three  Cantos.      12°,  pp.  216.     Leicester,   1830. 
An  attack  on  Masonry. 

Masque  of  Poets,  A,  Including  Guy  Vernon.     A  Novellette  in  Verse. 
12°,  pp.  301.     Boston,  1878. 

Mather,  (C.) 

Cotton  Mather  was  born  at  Boston,  February  12, 1662-3,  graduated  at  Harvard  in  1678, 
at  the  early  age  of  fifteen  years,  two  only  in  the  long  list  of  the  graduates  of  that  venerable 
University,  completing  the  regular  course  of  study  at  an  earlier  age  than  he,  namely,  Paul 
Dudley,  of  the  class  of  1690,  and  the  Rev.  Dr.  Andrew  P.  Peabody,  of  the  class  of  1826. 
He  preached  his  first  sermon  August  22,  1680,  at  the  age  of  seventeen,  was  ordained  col- 
■  league  of  his  father,  Rev.  Dr.  Increase  Mather,  May  13,  1685.  To  attempt  even  to  give  the 
simple  titles  of  all  tlie  works  he  published  would  be  impossible  in  a  sketch  like  this.  Sibley, 
in  his  "Graduates  of  Harvard,"  vol.  iii,  devotes  116  pages  to  an  enumeration  of  the  pub- 
lished writings  of  Cotton  Mather,  under  456  distinct  heads.  Professor  M.  C.  Tyler  gives 
the  number  of  his  published  writings  as  exceeding  383.  It  is  an  interesting  circum- 
stance that  in  "  The  Harris  Collection"  are  copies  of  the  first  and  the  third  productions 
of  liis  pen,  which  are  believed  to  be  the  only  copies  extant.  The  great  work  on  wliic  h 
his  fame  rests  is  his  "  Magnalia  Christi  Americana;  or,  The  Ecclesiastical  History  of 
New  England,  from  its  planting  in  the  year  1620,  unto  the  year  of  our  Lord  1698."  It 
has  been  well  said  of  him:  "  His  character  exhibits  a  remarkable  compound  of  ardent 
piety,  (which,  however,  was  not  without  a  tincture  of  self-conceit),  uncommon  activity 
and  force  of  intellect,  joined  to  a  credulity,  which,  even  in  that  age,  had  scarcely  any  par- 
allel among  educated  men."    He  died  February  13,  1827-8. 

—  A  Poem  Dedicated  to  the  Memory  of  the  Reverend  and  Excellent  Mr. 
Urian  Oakes,  the  late  Pastor  to  Christ's  Flock,  and  Proesident  of 
Harvard  College,  in  Cambridge,  who  was  gathered  to  his  People  on 
2b^  5™°  1681.  In  the  Fifty-th  Year  of  his  Age.  1  Sam.  25  1. 
And  Samuel  dyed  and  all  the  Israelites  were  gathered  together, 
and  Lamented  him. 

Scindentur  Vestes,  Gemmae  Frangentiur,  et  Aurum  ; 
Carmina  quam  tribuunt  Fama  perennis  erit.     Ovid. 
Magna  dabit  qui  magna  potest ;  mihi  parva  potenti 
Parvaq.  ;  poscenti,  parva  dedisse  sat  est. 
Boston  in  New  England 
Printed  for  John  RatcUff,  1682. 

This  was  Cotton  Mather's  first  published  work,  the  only  copy  known  and  believed  to 
be  unique.  It  has  the  autograph  of  N(atlianael)  Mather  on  the  last  page.  The  little  vol- 
ume, purchased  at  the  "  Brinley  sale,"  is  in  every  respect  perfect  and  is  elegantly  bound. 
It  is  one  of  the  rare  treasures  of  "  The  Harris  Collection."  On  a  fly-leaf  at  the  end  of  the 
volume  is  written  in  pencil,  $300.  Whether  this  was  the  price  paid  for  this  rare  book  by 
Mr.  Harris,  the  compiler  of  this  catalogue  does  not  know. 

If  worthy  Cotton  Mather  had  been  to  Mount  Helicon,  in  old  Boeotia,  to  drink  from  the 
pure  rills  of  the  Muses,  before  he  sat  down  to  write  this  delectable  poem,  we  fear  the 


AMERICA  X    POETRY.  163 

Mather,  (C.)  —  Continued. 

water  must  have  become  muddy,  or  in  some  way  lost  its  inspiring  powei-.      The  following 
lines  will  hardly  compare  with  even  the  poorest  stanzas  of  the  least  poetical  of  all  the 
writers  whose  productions  are  represented  in  the  collection. 
Lord!  from  thy  lofty  Throne 

Look  down  upon  thy  Heritage  '.  Lett  none 

Of  all  our  Breaches  bee  unhealed !  Lett 

This  dear  i^oor  Land  be  our  Immanuels  yett ! 

Lett's  be  a  Goshen  still!  Restrain  the  Jioar 

That  makes  Incursions  I  Give  us  daily  more 

Of  thy  All-curing  Spirit  from  on  High 

Let  all  thy  Churches  flourish!  And  supply 

The  almost  Twenty  Ones,  that  thy  just  Ire 

Has  left  without  Help  that  their  needs  require  ! 

Lett  not  the  CoUedge  droop  and  dy !  O  Lett 

The  Fountain  run!  A  Z)ocior  give  to  it! 

Moses's  are  to  th'  Upper  Canaan  gone ! 

Lett  Joshua's  Succeed  them!  goes  when  one 

Elijah,  raise  Elisha's !  Pauls  become 

Dissolv'd!  with  Christ!  Send  Tim'thees  in  their  room. 

Avert  the  Omen,  that  Teeth  apace 

Fall  out.    No  new  ones  should  supply  their  place ! 

Lord !  Lett  us  Peace  on  this  our  Israel  see ! 

And  still  both  Hephsibah,  and  Beulah  bee! 

Then  will  thy  People  Grace!  and  Glory!  Sing, 

And  every  wood  with  Hallelujah's  ring. 

X.  R. 
Says  Sibley,  in  his  notice  of  Cotton  Mather,  "  Harvard  Graduates,"  vol.  iii,  pp.  43: 
"The  letters  K.  R.  subscribed  to  this  poem  are  the  last  letters  of  the  name  Cotto?j  JIather." 

—  An  Elegy  on  the  much-to-be-deplored  Death  of  that  never-to-be- 
forgotten  Person,  the  Reverend  Mr.  Nathanael  Collins,  who  after 
he  had  been  many  years  a  faithful  Pastor  to  the  church  at  Middle- 
toivn  of  Connecticut  in  New  England  about  the  Forty-third  year 
of  his  age  expired  ;  on  28th.  10.  moneth  1684. 

Testor,  Christianum  his  de  Christiano  vera  proferre 

Hier.  Epis.  Paulse 
Sic  oculos,  »ic  ille  manus,  sic  ora  ferebat. 
Dignum  laude  virum  musa  vetat  mori. 

Horat. 
Boston  in  New  England 
Printed  by  Richard  Pierce  for  Obadiah  Gill. 
Anno  Christi  1685. 

The  full  title  is  given  of  a  book  which  is  claimed  to  be,  and  without  doubt  was,  among 
the  earliest,  probably  the  third,  of  the  exceedingly  voluminous  writings  of  Cotton  Mather, 
published  when  he  was  not  far  from  twenty-two  years  of  age.     It  has  also  the  merit  of 

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164  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

Mather,  (C.)  —  Continued. 

being,  so  fur  as  is  known,  tlie  only  copy  in  existence.  IJrinley,  who  was  the  higliest  author- 
ity in  such  matters,  writes  :  "Not  in  any  public  library.  Have  never  heard  of  another  copy  J' 
Even  Ills  own  son,  Samuel  Slather,  who  professes  to  have  made  out  a  complete  list  of  all  his 
father's  known  writings,  did  not  include  in  it  this  "  Elegy"  of  Cotton  Mather.  No  refer- 
ence is  made  to  it  by  the  best  writers  on  early  New  England  litci-ature.  Mr.  Harris  pur- 
chased this  rare  little  volume,  24°,  of  twenty  pages,  paying  for  it  $20.'),  at  the  Brinley  sale. 

—  Coixlerius  Aiiierit'amis An   Essay  upon   tlie    Good  p^ducation  of 

Children.  And  what  may  Hopefully  he  Attempted,  for  the  Hope 
of  the  FLOCK.  In  a  Funeral  Sermon  upon  Mr.  Ezekiel  Cheever. 
The  A)icie7it  and  Honourable  MASTER  of  the  FREE-SCHOOL 
in  Boston.  Who  left  off,  but  when  Mortality  took  him  off,  in 
August,    1708,    the   Ninety  Fourth   year   of   his  Age.     With  an 

ELEGY  and  an  EPITAPH  upon  him By  one  that  was  made 

a   scholar   by  him Vester    [CHEEVERUS]    cum    sic  moritur, 

nan  moritur.  Boston.  Printed  by  John  Allen,  for  Nicholas  Boone, 
at  the  sign  of  the  Bible  in  Cornhill,  near  the  corner  of  School  street, 
1708. 

This  copy  of  the  "  Coderius  Americauus"  purchased  at  the  Brinley  sale  is  in  per- 
fect condition  and  binding.  In  his  "  Harvard  Graduates,"  Sibley  calls  the  volume  an 
8°.  In  the  Harris  Collection  it  has  been  trimmed  down  to  an  18°.  The  Poetical  Essay 
and  Epitaph  are  pp.  26-34. 

—  Psalterium  Americanum.     The  Book   of  Psalms,   in  a   Translation 

Exactly  conformed  unto  the  Original,  but  all  in  Blank  verse  fitted 
unto  the  Tunes  commonly  used  in  oiu-  Churches.  Which  pure 
offering  is  accompanied  with  Illustrations,  digging  for  Hidden 
Treasures  in  it,  and  Rules  to  employ  it  upon  the  Glorious  and 
Various  Intentions  of  it.  Whereto  are  added  some  other  portions  of 
the  Sacred  Scriptures  to  enrich  the  Cantional.  12°,  pp.  xxxv,  426. 
Boston  in  N.  E.  Printed  by  S.  Kneeland  for  B.  Eliot,  F.  Ger- 
rish,  D.  Henchman  &  J.  Edwards,  and  sojd  at  their  shops.      1718. 

It  could  hardly  be  expected  that  Cotton  Mather,  who,  in  those  early  colonial  times, 
touched  life  on  so  many  sides,  would  fail  to  turn  his  thoughts  to  so  important  a  matter  as 
"  the  service  of  song,  in  the  House  of  the  Lord."  His  laudable  aim  in  this  book  is  to 
improve  what  he  regarded  as  the  careless,  untrustworthy  translation  of  the  I'salms  then 
current,  and  i^roduce  something  that  should  bear  a  closer  i-esemblance  to  the  original.  In 
this  version  we  do  not  have  lines  beginning  with  capitals,  whether  they  do  or  do  not  rhyme, 
but  the  entire  matter  is  "run  out,"  the  proper  syllabization  to  suit  the  metre  being  made 
by  upright  parallel  lines.  Mather  says  :  "  Our  Poetry  has  attempted  many  editions  of  the 
Psalms  in  such  Knmhers  and  Measures  as  might  render  them  capable  of  being  Sung  in 
those  grave  Tunes  which  have  been  prepared  and  received  for  our  Chi-istian  Psahnody, 
But  of  all  the  more  than  twice  Seven  Versions  which  I  have  seen,  it  must  be  atBrmed,  That 
they  leave  out  a  vast  heap  of  those  rich  things  which  the  Holy  Spirit  of  God  Speaks  in  the 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  165 

Mather,  (C.) — Continued. 

Original  Hebrew ;  and  that  they  2>iit  in  as  large  an  Heap  of  poor  Things  which  are  entirely 
their  oivn.  All  this  has  been  nieerly  for  the  sake  of  preserving  the  CUiiJ:  of  the  Ithime  : 
Which  after  all  is  of  small  consequence  unto  a  Generous  Poem,  and  of  none  at  all  unto  the 
Melody  of  Singing ;  But  of  liow  little  then,  in  Singing  unto  the  Lord!  "  An  illustration 
of  tlie  way  in  which  the  "Psalterium"  was  prepared  is  taken  from  I'salm  LI.  By  omit- 
ting the  words  in  BLACK  LETTP^R,  the  verse  is  adapted  to  another  metre.  '-The 
Director  of  the  Psalmody  need  only  say  'Sing  with  the  BLACK  LETTER,  or  sing  with- 
out the  BLACK  LETTER,'  and  the  tune  will  be  sutflciently  directed." 

9.  From  the  beholding  of  my  Sins  ||  [kindly]  hide  thou  away  thy  face;  ||  and  all  of  my 
Iniquities  ||  [whoHy]  do  thou  obliterate. 

10.  O  God,  Create  in  me  an  heart  ||  that  shall  be  [.judged]  thoroughly  clean;  ||  and  in 
the  midst  of  me  do  thou  ||  renew  a  Spirit  right  [jind  firm]. 

Mather,  (S.) 

Samuel  Mather,  a  son  of  Cotton  Mather,  was  born  in  1706,  graduated  at  Harvard  in 
172.'?,  for  ten  years  was  colleague  pastor  with  Rev.  Mr.  Gee  in  the  Old  JJorth  Church,  Bos- 
ton, and  then  of  a  colony  which  withdrew  from  that  church.  He  died  in  1785.  l^rofessor 
Tyler  says  of  him :  "  He  left  no  successor  to  continue  the  once  splendid  dynasty  of  his 
tribe.    He  was  the  last  and  the  least  of  the  Mathers." 

—  An  attempt  to  show,  that  America  must  be  (have  been?)  known  to 

the  Ancients  ;  made  at  tlie  request,  and  to  gratiiiy  the  curiosity,  of 
an  inquisitive  gentleman.  To  Avhich  is  added  an  Appendix  con- 
cerning the  American  colonies,  and  some  modern  managements 
against  them.  By  an  American  Englishman,  Pastor  of  a  church  in 
Boston,  New  England.     8°,  pp.  35,  1773. 

A  very  rare  and  curious  volume,  so  rare  that  Rich,  the  celebrated  bibliographer,  had 
never  seen  a  copy,  but  refers  to  the  catalogue  of  Harvard  College  Library.  There  is  a 
copy  in  the  John  Carter  Brown  Library,  also  one  in  the  Library  of  Bowdoin  College,  and 
two  copies  in  the  Library  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society.  Thomas,  in  his  History 
of  Printing,  vol.  i,  p.  20,  says:  This  is  "  a  work  of  equal  learning  and  patriotism.  It 
maintains  that  the  posterity  of  Japhet  by  Slagogwere  the  primary  inhabitants  of  America, 
a  warlike  people,  well  qualified  to  make  those  Ancient  Encampments  which  have  been 
discovered  at  the  West." 

The  claim  of  this  book  to  be  in  a  "Collection  of  American  Poetry"  is  found  in  the 
circumstance  that  there  are  in  it  two  or  three  poetical  quotations. 

—  The  Sacred  Minister.     A  new  Poem   in  Five  Parts,  representing  his 

qualifications  for  the  Ministry,  and  his  Life  and  Death  in  it.  By 
Aurelius  Prudentius,  Americanus.     8°,  pp.  22.     Boston,  1783. 

Mathews'  Lecture  on  America,  etc.     16°,  pp.  35.     Baltimore,  1824. 

Mathews,  (C.) 

Cornelius  Mathews  was  born  at  Port  Ciiester,  N.  Y.,  October  28,  1817,  graduated  at  tlie 
University  of  Kew  York,  18:W,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1837,  has  been  editor  of  several 
journals  and  a  frequent  contributor  to  periodicals,  etc. 


166  HARK  IS    COLLECTION. 

Matiikavs.  (C.)  —  Continued. 

—  Pooins  on  Man,  in  his  Various  Aspects  uiuler  tlje  American  Republic. 

12%  pp.  viii,  112.     London,  1842. 

—  Man  in  the  Kepublic.      A  New  Edition.      24°,  pp.   9G,      New  York, 

1846. 

—  Witchcraft.     A  Tragedy.      18°,  pp.  09.     London,  1852. 

Mathies,  (J.)     Rochester.     A  Satire,  etc.      18°,   pp.    130.     Rochester, 
1830. 

Matrimony,  The  Romance  of.     (Anon.)     12°,  pp.  122.     Philadelphia, 

18G5. 
Matthews,  (J.  B.) 

James  Brander  Matthews  was  born  in  Louisiana  in  1852,  and  removed  to  New  York 
City.    He  wrote  under  tlie  signature  of  Arthur  J'enn. 

—  Poems   of  American   Patriotism.      12°,   pp.  xiii,    285.     New  York, 

1882. 

Matukin,  (E.  S.) 

Edward  S.,  son  of  Charles  Robert  Maturin,  of  Dublin,  Ireland,  was  born  in  that  city  in 
1812,  and  was  educated  at  Trinity  College,  in  his  native  city  He  came  to  New  York  in 
1832,  where  he  practiced  law.  Subsequently  he  resided  as  a  teacher  in  South  Carolina, 
then  returned  to  New  York,  where  he  died  May  25,  1881. 

—  Lyrics  of  Spain  and  Erin.     12°,  pp.  208.     Boston,  1851. 

—  Viola.      12°,  pp.  32.     New  York,  no  date. 

Maxwell,  (W.)     Poems.     24°,  pp.  144.     Philadelphia,  1812. 

—  Same.     18°,  pp.  168.     Philadelphia,  1816. 

May,  (Caroline.) 

The  daughter  of  Rev.  E.  H.  May,  a  clergyman  of  the  Reformed  Church  in  America, 
in  the  city  of  New  York.  She  is  well  known  as  the  compiler  of  "  The  American  Female 
Poets." 

—  The  American  Female  Poets,  with  Biographical  and  Critical  Notices. 

12°,  pp.  532.     Philadelphia,  1848. 

—  Poems.      12°,  pp.  223.     New  York,  1865. 

May,  (Edith.)     Poems.     12°,  pp.  52,  324.     Philadelphia,  1856. 

This  is  the  j)seud.  of  Anna  Drinker,  a  native  of  Philadelphia.  (See  Griswold's 
"  Female  Poets  of  America."    1860,  pp.  362.) 

Mayfield,  (Millie.)      Progression;  or.  The  South  Defended.      12°,  pp. 
226.     Cincinnati,  I860. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  167 

Maylem,  (J.) 

John  Maylem  was  born  not  far  from  1695,  graduated  at  Harvard  College  in  1715,  and 
died  1742.    His  memory  is  not  very  fragrant.     (See  Duyckink,  vol.  i,  pp.  432.) 

—  The  Conquest  of  Louisberg.     18°,  pp.  16.     No  place,  no  date. 

Maylin,  (Anne  W.)     Lays  of  Many  Hours.      12°,  pp.   168.     Philadel- 
phia,  1847. 

Mayo,  (Mrs.  Sarah  C.  E.) 

Sarah  C.  Edgarton  was  born  at  Shirley,  Mass.,  in  1819,  became  the  wife  of  Rev.  A.  D. 
Mayo,  a  L'niversalist  minister,  in  1840,  for  nine  years  edited  "  The  Rose  of  Sharon,"  was 
editor  also  of  "  The  Ladies'  Repository,"  contributed  many  articles  to  "The  Knicker- 
bocker,"  "  The  New  Y'orker,"  etc.    She  died  in  1848. 

—  Selections  from  her  Writings.     Prose  and  Poetry.      12°,   pp.   432. 

Boston,  1849. 

Mazaro  AND  Lellaii  ;  OR,  The  Victims  of  Love.     (Anon.)     12°,  pp. 
21.     Cincinnati,  1840. 

Meacham,  (A.  G.)     Sumner.     24°.  pp.  16.     Eushville,  111.,  1856. 

Mead,  ( ?)     Wall  Street ;  or,  Ten  Minutes  before  Three.     A  Farce. 

3d  Edition.      18°,  pp.  34.     New  York,  1819. 

Mead,    (C.)      American  Minstrel.      18°,    pp.   viii,   174,      Philadelphia, 
1828. 

—  Mississippian  Scenery.     A  Poem  descriptive  of  the  interior  of  North 

America.     12°,  pp.  ix,  113.     Philadelphia,  1819. 

Medina,  (Louisa  H.)     Ernest  Maltravers.     A  Drama.     12°,   pp.  37. 
New  York,  no  date. 

—  Nick  of  the  AYoods.     A  Drama.     12°,  pp.  30.     Boston,  no  date. 

—  The  Last  Days  of  Pompeii.     A   Dramatic   Spectacle.      12°,  pp.  31. 

New  York,  no  date. 

Medley,  A,   of  Joy  and   Grief.      (Anon.)     12°,   pp.  iv,   298.     New- 
York,  1822. 

Medley,  The.     8°.     New  Haven,  1833. 

Megia,    (F.)     Lafayette    en    Monte    Vernon.      Drama.       18°,    pp.    30. 
Filadelfia,  1825. 


168  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

Mekk,  (A.  B.) 

Alexander  Beaufort  Meek  was  born  at  Columbia,  S.  C,  July  17,  1814,  graduated  at  the 
University  of  Alabama  in  1S33,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1835,  tilled  many  important  offices 
of  civil  trust,  and  originated  the  free  school  system  of  Alabama.  He  died  at  Columbus, 
Miss.,  November  30,  1805. 

—  Songs  and  Poems  of  the  Soutli.     12°,  pp.  x,  282.     Mobile,  1857. 

—  Samo.     2d  Edition.     New  York,  1857. 

—  The  Red  Eagle.      12°,  pp.  108.     New  York,  1855. 

Megratii,  (G.)     The  New  Dido.     12°,  pp.  92.     New  York,  1851. 
Meigs,  (R.  J.) 

Return  Jonathan  Meigs  was  born  at  Middletown,  Conn.,  December  17,  1740,  and  rose 
to  distinction  as  an  otficcr  in  the  American  army  in  the  Revolutionary  war.  He  died  at 
the  Cherokee  Agency,  January  28,  1823.  (See  Johnson's  Universal  Encyclopaedia,  vol. 
iii,  p.  398.) 

—  A  Poem  Delivered  at  Yale,  March  9,  1784.     Sm,  8°,  pp.  16.     New 

Haven,  1784. 

Meigs,  (Mrs.  Mary  N.)     Lays  of  a  Lifetime.      Sq.  8°,  pp.   157.     New 
York,  1857. 

Mellen,  (G.) 

The  name  of  the  author,  Grenville  Mellen,  is  not  given  on  the  title-p.age.    He  was  born 

at  Biddeford,  Me.,  June  19,  1799,  graduated  at  Harvard  in  1818,  studied  law  and  practiced 

for  several  years  in  North  Yarmouth  (now  Yarmouth),  Me.     For  five  years  he  resided  in 

^    Boston.    In  1823  he  began  in  New  Y'ork  a  "  Monthly  Miscellany,"  which  had  only  a  brief 

existence.    He  died  in  1840. 

—  Our  Chronicle  of  '26.     A  Satirical  Poem.      8°,   pp.   40.     Boston, 
■      1827. 

—  Poem  at  Amherst  College,  delivered  August  27,  1839.     8°,   pp.   3  5. 

Amherst,  1839. 

—  The  Martyr's  Triumph,  Buried  Valley,  etc.      12°,  pp.  vi,  297.     Bos- 

ton, 1833. 

—  The  Passions.     Lg.  8°,  pp.  44.     Boston,  1836. 

—  The  Rest  of  the  Nations.     Pronounced  before  the  Peace  Society  of 

Maine,  May  10,  1826.     8°,  pp.  28.     Portland,  1826. 

Mellen,  (J.,  Jr.)     The  Fall  of  the  Indian,  etc.     12°,  pp.  99.     Boston, 
1830. 

Melmoth,  (S.)     The  Confessions  of  Cuthburt,  etc.      18°,  pp.  xviii,  124. 
Boston,  1827. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  169 

Melodies,  Sacred.     (Anon.)     12°,  pp.  111.     New  York,  1841. 

Melodist  Revival,  Y.  M.  C.  A.     Ob.  18°,  pp.  51.     Providence,  no  date. 

Memoriam,  In.     Sarah  Hills  Hall,  b.  November  12,  1777,  d.  September 
21,  1866.      (Anon.)      Sq.  12°,  pp.  16.     No  place,  no  date. 

Menken,  (Adah  Isaacs.)     Infelicia.     Sq.   18°,   pp.  v,    141.     London, 
Paris,  New  York,  1868. 

Mering,  (Ann  S.)     Songs  in  the  Night.     12°,  pp.  62.     Cincinnati,  1855. 

Merry,  (R.) 

Robert  Merry  was  born  .it  London  in  1755,  and  was  educated  at  Christ's  College,  Cam- 
bridge. For  many  years  he  resided  in  Florence.  In  1796  he  came  to  America.  His  death 
occured  at  Baltimore,  January  24, 1798. 

—  The  Pains  of  Memory.     Sq.  8°,  pp.  39.     Boston,  1797. 

Merry's  Illustrated  Book  of  Rhymes.     (R.  Merry  and  H.  Hatchet, 
jjseiid.)      12°,  pp.  108.      1859. 

Methodism,  The  Spirit  of.     (Anon.)      18°,  pp.  94.     New  York,  1831. 

Metamorphosis  ;  or,  A  Transformation  of  Pictures,  etc.     18°,  pp.  6. 
Wilmington,  1814. 

Mexitli  ;  OR,  The  Conque.st  of  Mexico.     (By  T.  C.  R.    Anon.)     12°, 
pp.  24.     No  phice,  date  in  pencil,  1863. 

Mayer,  (M.)     Translation  of  Karl  Gutzkow's  Uriel  Acosta.     A  Tragedy. 
12°,  pp.  104.     New  York,  1860. 

MiCHARD,    (J.)     Religio   Poetae.      A   Trilogy.      12°,    p]».    119.      Rich- 
mond, 1860. 

Michel  Bonham  ;  or.  The  Fall  of  Bexar.    A  Tale  of  Texas.     (Anon. 
By  a  Southron.)     8°,  pp.  35.     Richmond,  1852. 

MiCROCO-SMus  Philadelphicus,  in  Two  Epistles,  etc.     12°,   pp.   60. 
Philadelphia,  1825. 

MiDDLETON,  (Edda.)     Sappho.     A  Tragedy.     4°,  pp.  159.     New  Yoi'k, 

1858. 

After  the  German  of  Francis  Grillparzer,  born  in  1790.  "Sappho  ''  appeared  in  1818.  It 
was  a  great  favorite  with  Rachel. 

Midnight,  etc.     (Anon.)      12°,  pp.  90.     New  York,  1858. 


170  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

Miles,  (G.  H.)     Christine  :   A  Troubadour's  Song.     12°,  pp.  285.     New 
York,  186G. 

—  Mary's  Birtlulay ;  or,  The  Cynic,      12°,  pp.  36.     Boston,  no  date. 

—  Senor  Yaliente.     A  Comedy.      12°,  pp.  52.     Boston,  no  date. 

Millefleur's,  Miss  MiLLY,  Career.    (Anon.)    In  Fifteen  Sketches.    4°. 
New  York,  1869. 

Miller,  (J.) 

Ciucinnatus  Heine,  or  .ToiKiuin  Jliller,  was  born  in  the  Wabash  District,  Ind.,  Novem  - 
ber  10,  1841,  went  to  the  Pacific  coast  in  1S54,  had  all  sorts  of  adventures  in  California,  was 
with  Walker  in  his  Nicaragua  Expedition,  and  for  a  time  lived  among  the  Indians,  subse- 
quently studied  law,  was  a  County  Judge  in  Oregon,  180G-70,  went  to  England  in  1870, 
where  he  attracted  much  attention.  Besides  his  poetry  he  has  published  several  prose 
productions. 

—  Poems.      12°.     Songs   of  the   Sierras,  pp.    277.     Songs  of  the  Sun 

Lands,    pp.    178.       Fallen   Leaves,    pp.   209.       The   Ship  in  the 
Desert,  pp.  205.     Songs  of  Italy,  pp.  178.     Boston,  1882. 

—  Songs  of  Italy.     12°,  pp.  186.     Boston,  1878. 

—  Songs  of  the  Sierras.     12°,  pp.  299.     London,  1872. 

-  —  The  Ship  in  the  Desert.      12°,  pp.  xii,  205.     Boston,  1875. 

Miller,  (J.  W.)     Poems  and  Sketches.     12°,  pp.  165.     Boston,  1830. 

Mills,  (H.)     Horae   Germanicaj :    A  Version  of  German  Hymns.      16°, 
pp.  274.     Auburn,  1845. 

—  Same.     2d  Edition.      12°,  pp.  368.     New  York  and  Auburn,  1856. 

Mills,  (J.  H.)     Poetic  Trifles.     12°,  pp.  116.     Baltimore,  1808. 

Mines,  (J.  F.)     The  Heroes  of  the  Last  Lustre.     16°,  pp.  135.     New 
York,  1858. 

MiNSHALL,  (J.)      Rural  Felicity.     8°,  pp.  68.     New  York,  1801. 

Minstrelsy  of  Edmund,  the  Wanderer.     Collected  by  R*.  T.  Spence. 
8°,  pp.  340.     New  York,  1810. 

Minstrel's  Cabinet.      (Anon.)     24°,  pp.  187.     Title-page  gone. 

Misanthrope,  The,  of  the  Mountain.     (Anon.)     12°,  pp.  48.     New 
Haven,   1833. 

Miscellaneous  Poems.     (By  a  Lady.     Anon.)      12°,  pp.  143.     Wood- 
stock, 1820. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  171 

Miscellanies.     Prose  and  Verse.     (Compiled.     Anon.)     2d  Burlington 
Edition.      12°,  pp.  198.     Burlington,  Vt.,  1796. 

Missing  Links,  The,  to  Darwin's  Origin  of  Species.     Large  12°,  not 
paged.     No  place,  no  date. 

Mistral,  (F.)     Mireio.     A  Provencal  Poem.     Translated  by  Harriet  "W. 
Preston.     12°,  pp.  241.     Boston,  1872. 

Mitchell,  (Agnes  W.)     The  Smuggler's  Son,  etc.     Prose  and  Verse. 
12°,  pp.  viii,  299.     Philadelphia,  1842. 

Mitchell,    (Catherine.)      The   Downfall  of  Jerusalem,  etc.     18°,  pp. 
70.     Philadelphia,  1845. 
—  The   Minstrel's  Bride ;  or,  The   Shepherd  of  Hazel  Glen.      12°,  pp. 
237.     Philadelphia,  1859. 

Mitchell,  (J.  K.,  M.  D.)     Indecision.     A  Tale  of  the  Far  West.     12°, 
pp.  X,  212.     Philadelphia,   1839. 

Mitchell,  (S.  W.)      The  Hill  of  Stones,  etc.     16°,   pp.   98.     Boston, 
1883. 

Mitchell,  (W.)     Poems.     18°,  pp.  35.     New  York,  1860. 

Mock  Auction,  The.     Ossawatomie  Sold.    A  Mock  Heroic  Poem.     12°, 
pp.  261.     Richmond,  1860. 

Modern  Battle,   The,  of  the  Kegs.      (Anon.)     \2°,  pp.  12.     Phila- 
delphia, 1854. 

MoELLiNG,  (C.  E.)     Faust's  Death.     A  Tragedy.     12°,  pp.  136.     Phil- 
adelphia, 1865. 

MoiSE,  (P.)      Fancy's  Sketch  Book.      18°,  pp.  159.     Charleston,  S.  C, 
1833. 

Mole   Family,  The.      (E.  P.     Anon.)     12°,   pp.   39.     Poughkeepsie, 
1870. 

MoLLiNEL'x,  (Mary.) 

Mary  Southworth,  the  wife  of  Henry  MoUineux,  was  an  English  Friend,  born  not  far 
from  the  year  1650.  .She  shared  with  her  husband  the  severe  persecutions  to  whicli  the 
Quakers  were  subjected  in  the  period  in  which  slie  lived.  She  died  lltli  month,  .3d  day, 
1695. 


172  HAKRIS    COLLECTION. 

Moi.i.iNEUX,  (Mary.) —  Continued. 

—  Fruits  of  Retirement;  or,  Miscellaneous   Poems,  Moral  and   Divine, 

etc.     18°,  pp.  182.     Philadelphia,  1729. 

An  elegant,  richly  bound  copy  from  the  Brinley  sale,  for  which  $26  was  paid. 

MoNEGHAN,    (J.   C.)      Emmet;  or,  The    Hero  of  1803.     12°,  pp.    70. 
Providence,  1879. 

MONGRELITES  ;    OR,     ThE      RADICALS,    SO     CaLLED.         (AuOU.)         12°,    pp. 

viii,  52.     New  York,  no  date. 

MoNiAD,  The.     A  Satire.      (Anon.)      18°,  pp.  112.     Philadelphia,  1867. 

Monitor,  The.     An   Earnest  Appeal  to  Merchants  and  Other  Business 
Men.      (Anon.)      12°,  pp.  22.     New  York,  1863. 

MoNTCLAiR,  (J.  W.)      Real  and  Ideal.      12°,  pp.  x,  119.     Philadelphia, 
New  York,  Boston,  London,  1865. 

Montgomeries,    Memorables   of   the.       8°,  pp.  iii,   7.       New   York, 
printed  for  the  King  of  Clubs,  1866. 

Edition,  60  copies  S°,  -10  copies  i°. 

Montgomery,  General.      The  Death  of,  etc.      (Anon.")      12°,  pp.  68. 
Norwich,  1777. 

Montgomery,  (H.  P.)     Tadmor,  the  Pride  of  the  Desert.      12°,  pp.  67. 

Boston,  1865. 

♦ 

MoNrMENTAL  Gratitude,  A,  ATTEMPTED,  ETC.     12°,  pp.  10.     New  Lon- 
don, 1727. 

Moods  and  Emotions  in  Rhyme.     (By  H.  A.  R.,  pseud.)     12°,  pp.  181. 
Boston,  1855. 

Moore,  (C.  C,  LL.  D.) 

Clement  Clarke  Moore,  son  of  Bishop  Benjamin  Moore,  was  born  in  the  city  of  New- 
York,  July  15,  1~?9,  graduated  at  Columbia  College  in  1798,  was  appointed  Professor  of 
Biblical  Learning  iu  the  New  York  General  Theological  Seminary  in  1821,  and  subse- 
quently filled  the  chair  of  Hebrew  and  Greek,  and  then  that  of  Greek  and  Oriental  Liter- 
ature.   He  died  at  Newport,  K.  I.,  July  10,  1863. 

—  Poema.      12°,  pp.  viii,  216.     New  York,  1844. 

—  Santa  Claus.     Sq.  8°,  pp.  9.     New  York,  no  date. 

—  The  Night  before  Christmas.     Lg.  8°,  pp.  15.     Philadelphia,  no  date. 


AMEIIICAX    POETRY.  173 


Moore,  (F.) 

Frank  Moore  was  born  at  Concord,  N.  H.,  December  17, 1828.  He  has  published  "  The 
Rebellion  Record,"  11  vols.,  8^,  1862-68,  an  invaluable  work  for  reference.  For  some  time 
he  was  Secretary  of  Legation  at  Paris. 

—  Songs   and  Ballads  of  the  American  Revolntion.      16°,  pp.  xii,  394. 

New  York,  1856. 

Moore,  (F.  A.) 

Frederic  A.  Moore  wrote  under  the  signature  of  ''Eugene  Sinclair."  He  resided  at 
one  time  in  Manchester,  X.  H.,  where  he  was  engaged  in  literary  work,  and  subsequently 
in  Washington,  D.  C. 

—  Gems  for  Y^ou  ;   from  New  Hampshire  Authors.     Prose  and  Poems. 

12°,  pp.  312.     Manchester,  1850. 

Moore,  (J.,  M.  D.) 

A  Pliiladelphia  physician. 

—  Happiness.      12°,  pp.  24.     Philadelphia,  1878. 

—  Mad  Dogs  :  A  Farce.      12°,  pp.  15.     New  Y'ork,  no  date. 

—  Meditations  on  the  Divine  Attributes.      12°,  pp.  23.     Philadelphia, 

1879. 

—  Our  Redeemer's  Kingdom.     12°,  pp.  24,     Philadelphia,  1877. 

—  Saint  Paul.     12°,  pp.  22.     Philadelphia,  1878. 

—  The  Citv  of  God.      12°,  pp.. 23.     Philadelphia,  1877. 

—  The  Kimeliad.      18°,  pp.  65.     Philadelphia,  1867. 

—  The  Necklace.      12°,  pp.  24.     Philadelphia,  1880. 

—  What  is  Man?     12°,  pp.  24.     Philadelphia,  1879. 

—  Willard  Glazier,  the  Cavalier,  etc.     12°,  pp.  24.     Philadelphia,  1880. 

Moore,  (J.  M.)     Lord  Nial,  etc.     12°,  pp.  276.     New  York,  1834. 

Moore,  (J.  S.)     Abrah  :    The  Conspirator.     A  Tragedy.      12°,  pp.  51. 
"Washington,  1847. 

—  The  Oracle  of  Delphos,  etc.     24°,  pp.  87.     Washington,  1844. 

Moos,  (H.  M.)      Mortara  ;   or.  The  Poi^e  and  His  Inquisitors.     12°,  pp. 
171.     Cincinnati,  1860. 

More,   (Ixnis.)     The   Twa  Rats.     After   Burns.     16°,  pp.  12.     Wash- 
ington, 1868. 

MoRETON,  ( .)     Miscellaneous    Poems.      12°,  pp.    288.     Printed  for 

Private  Circulation.     Philadelphia,  1875. 


174  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

MoKEY,  (A.  C.)      Charlotte  Corday.     A  Tragedy  in  Five  Acts.      12°,  pp. 
48.     Now  York,  1844. 

MoRFORD,  (H.)     Music  of  the  Spheres.      12°,  pp.  12.     Granville,  Mid- 
dletown,  N.  J.,  1840. 

—  Rhymes  of  an  Editor.      12°,  pp.  303.     London  and  New  York,  1873. 

—  Rhymes  of  Twenty  Years.      12°,  pp.  xii,  240.     New  York,  1859. 

MORMONIAD.      (Anon.)      16°,  pp.  95.     Boston,  1858. 

Morning  Watch,  The.     (Anon.)     12°,  pp.  175.     New  York,  1850. 

Moron.     A  Tale  of  the  Alhambra.     In  Three  Cantos,  etc.      12°,  pp.  iv, 
111.     Philadelphia,  1829. 

Morris,  (T.  H.)     Mariana;  or.  The  Coquette.     A  Comedy.     12°,  pp. 
50.     Baltimore,  1868. 

Morris,  (G.  P.) 

George  P.  Morris  was  born  at  Philadelphia,  October  10,  1802,  removed  to  New  York 
in  early  life  and  devoted  himself  to  literary  pursuits.  The  periodicals  with  which  he  was 
connected  were  the  Kew  York  Mirror  and  Ladies'  Literanj  Gazette,  1823-12.  Neiv 
Mirror,  1813-44,  Ecening  Mirror,  1844  to  close  of  '45.  Home  Journal  late  in  1845  to  his 
death,  July  (>,  1864.  He  was  distinguished,  among  other  things,  as  a  song-writer.  (See 
Allibone,  pp.  1371-72.) 

—  Poems.     4th  Edition.      18°,  pp.  366.     New  York,  1860. 

—  The  Deserted  Bride,  etc.     8°,  pp.  80.     New  York,  1838. 

—  Same.      1843. 

—  Same.     With  Illustrations,  1853. 

—  The  Maid  of  Saxony.      12°,  pp.  16.     New  York,  1842. 

—  The  Whip-Poor- Will.      Illustrated.      8°,  pp.  62.     Philadelphia  and 

New  York,  no  date. 

Morris,  (Maria  and  Catherine  M.)     Metrical  Musings.     12°,  pp.  188. 
New  York,  1856. 

Morrison,  (J.  M.)     Clarsach  Albin,  etc.     12°,  pp.  108.     Philadelphia, 
1847. 

Morse,  (O.  A.)      A  Vindication  of  the  Authorship  of  the  Poem,  "  Rock 

Me  to  Sleep,  Mother."     Sq..  8°,  pp.  72.     New  York,  1867. 

The  claimants  to  the  authorship  of  this  poem  are  Elizabeth  A.  C.  Akers  and  Alexander 
M.  W.  Ball.    Mr.  Morse  favors  the  claim  of  Mr.  Ball. 

Mortimer,  (J.)     The  Theban  Club  ;  or.  The  Wall  Street  Critics.     24°, 
pp.  15.     Philadelphia,  1824. 


AMEEICAX    POETRY.  175 

Morton,  (J.  W.)     The  Pleasures  of  Home.     12%  pp.  132.     Pittsburgh, 
.1841. 

Morton,  (Mrs.  S.  W.) 

Sarah  Wentworth  Apthorpe  was  the  wife  of  Hon.  Perez  Morton,  Attorney  General  of 
Massachusetts.    She  wrote  under  the  signature  of  "  Philena." 

—  Beacon  Hill.     4°,  pp.  56.     Boston,  1797. 

—  Oiiabi.     8°,  pp.  viii,  52.     Boston,  1790. 

—  My  Mind  and  its  Thoughts.     Prose  and  Poetry.     8°,  pp.  xvii,  295. 

Boston,   1823. 

—  The  Virtues  of  Society.     4°,  pp.  46.     Boston,  1799. 

Morton,  (T.)  The  Blind  Girl.  A  Comic  Opera.  18°,  pp.  60.  Bos- 
ton, 1808. 

Moses  ;  or.  The  Man  who  Supposes  Himself  to  be  Moses  no  Moses 
at  All.      (Anon.)     24°,  pp.  24.     New  York,  1866. 

Moses,   Song   of.     "Written   by  the  Columbia  Warrior.      (Anon.)      12° 
pp.  11.     No  place,  no  date. 

Moses,  (T.  P.)  Leisure  Thoughts  in  Prose  and  Verse.  12°,  pp.  192. 
Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  1849. 

Mother  Goose  for  Grown  Folks.  Illustrated  by  Billings.  12°,  pp. 
111.     New  York,  1868. 

Motley  Assembly.     A  Farce.     12°,  pp.  15.     Boston,  1779. 

Mott,  (A.)  Biographical  Sketches,  etc.,  of  Persons  of  Color.  A  few 
Poems  in  the  volume.      12°,  pp.  190.     Now  York,  1826. 

MouLTON,  (Louise  Chandler.) 

Ellen  Louise  Chandler  was  born  at  Pomfret,  Conn.,  April  10,  1835,  and  in  1855  married 
William  U.  Moulton,  a  journalist,  of  Boston.  She  has  been  a  frequent  contributor  to  the 
periodicals  of  the  day. 

—  Poems.     18°,  pp.  153.     Boston,  1878. 

Mount  Vernon.     (Anon.)     8°,  pp.  19.     No  place,  no  date. 

A  Dutch  poem. 

Mountain,  (G.  J.,  D.D.) 

George  Jehoshaphat  Mountain  was  born  at  Norwich,  England,  .July  27,  1780,  educated 
at  Trinity  College,  Cambridge,  ordained  Deacon  in  the  Established  Church  in  1812,  and 
Priest  in  1813,  was  a  clergyman  in  Frederickton  and  (Quebec  for  several  years,  was  Bishop 
of  Montreal  1830-50,  and  of  Quebec  1850-63,  and  died  January  C,  1863. 

—  Songs  of  the  Wilderness.      12°,  pp.  xxvi,  153.     London,  1846. 


176  IIARKIS    COLLECTION. 

Moving    Times    and    no    Fuisnds.       (Anon.)       Sq.    12°.      No    place, 

i7(;o[?]. 

MoAVATT,  (Anna  C.) 

Anna  Cora  Ogdcn  was  born  of  American  parents  at  Bordeaux,  Prance,  in  1810,  was 
lirst  married  at  tlie  age  of  rtfteeu  to  Mr.  Mow.att,  .1  lawyer  of  New  York,  and  subsequently 
to  W.  Ritchie,  of  Richmond,  Va.  She  commenced  her  career  as  an  actress  about  1845. 
Her  death  occurred  in  1870. 

—  Armand;  or,   The   Peer  and    the  Peasant.     A  Play,      12°,  pp.  60. 

New  York,  1851. 

—  Fashion  ;  or.  Life  in   New  York.     A  Comedy.      12°,  pp.  62.     Lon- 

don, 1830. 

—  Same.      12°,  pp.  62.     New  York,  no  date. 

—  Polayo  ;  or,  The  Cavei-n  of  Covandonga.      (By  Isabel,  jDseitc^.)      8°, 

pp.  204.     New  York,  183G. 

—  Plays.     New  and  Revised  Edition.      12°,  pp.  60,  62.     Boston,  1855. 

—  Reviewers  Reviewed.     12°,  pp.  xii,  72.     New  York,  1837. 

MuDGE,   (E.)     Temperance    Address    to    Seamen.      12°,  pp.   12.     New 
Bedford,  1837. 

Muhlenberg,  (W.  A.) 

William  Augustus  Muhlenberg,  D.  D.,  was  born  at  Philadelphia,  September  10,  1706, 
graduated  at  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  in  1814,  was  ordained  in  the  Protestant  Epis- 
copal Church  in  1817,  and  after  preaching  for  several  years  he  founded,  in  1828,  at  Flush- 
ing, N.  Y.,  the  school  which  subsequently  became  St.  Paul's  College.  The  Church  of  the 
Holy  Communion,  N.  Y.,  St.  Luke's  Hospital,  N.  Y.,  and  the  Colony  of  St.  Johnland,  on 
Long  Island,  were  founded  by  him.    He  died  April  8,  1877. 

—  I  Would  Not  Live  Alway,  etc.      12°,  pp.  66.     New  York,  1860. 

MULLEK,    (A.  A.) 

Rev.  Albert  A.  Muller,  an  Episcopal  clergyman,  was  Rector  of  Christ  Church, 
Charleston. 

—  Gospel  Melodies,  etc.     12°,  pp.  104.     Charleston,  1823. 

Multiplication  Table  in    Rhyme.       (By  a  Lady.     Anon.)      18°,   pp. 
15.     Boston,  1830. 

MuNDAY,  (LuRANiA  A.  H.)     Acacian  Lyrics,  etc.      12°,  pp.  178.     Cin- 
cinnati,  1860. 

MUNFORD,    (R.) 

Robert  Munford  was  an  officer  in  the  Revolutionary  army,  and  the  author  of  one  or 
two  political  dramas.    This  Collection  of  Plays  and  Poems  was  made  by  his  son  William. 


AMERICAN    POETllT.  177 

MuNFORD,  (R.)  —  Continued. 

—  Collection   of  Plays   and    Poems.     12°,   pp.   xii,   206.     Petersburg, 

1798. 

—  Same.      12°,  pp.  189.     Richmond,  1798. 

MUNFORD,   (W.) 

■\Villiam  Munford  was  born  at  Mecklenberg  county,  Va.,  August  15,  1775,  graduated  at 
William  and  Mary  College,  studied  law,  for  several  years,  served  in  the  House  of  Delegates, 
was  elected  a  member  of  the  Privy  Council  of  State,  and  for  several  years  occupied 
important  posts  of  trust  and  honor  in  his  native  State.  The  work  of  the  leisure  years  of 
his  life  was  "  Homer's  Iliact."    He  died  at  Richmond,  June  21, 1825. 

—  Homer's  Iliad.      2  vols.     8°,  pp.  xii,  452,  524.     Boston,  1846. 

MrNSON,  (A.  D.)     Lyrics  of  Trade.     12°,  pp.  73.     New  York,  1865. 

MuRDEN,  (Mrs.,  married  name  of  Miss  Eliza  Crawley.)     Poems.     2d 
Edition.      12°,  pp.  155.     Charleston,  1827. 

MuRDOCK,  (J.)      The  Triumphs  of  Love  ;  or,  Happy  Reconciliation.     A 
Comedy.      1st  Edition.      12°,  pp.  83.     Philadelphia,  1795. 

MURDOCK,  (J.  E.) 

James  Edward  Murdock,  the  well-known  actor  and  elocutionist,  was  born  at  Phila- 
delphia, January  25,  1811,  and  has  attained  to  a  high  rank  in  his  profession.  For  some 
time,  during  the  civil  war,  he  was  on  the  staff  of  General  Rousseau.  He  did  good  service 
by  his  readings  in  raising  funds  for  hospitals,  etc.  After  the  war  he  returned  to  his  pro- 
fession. 

—  Patriotism  in  Poetry  and  Prose.     Selections.      12°,  pp.  172.     Phila- 

delphia, 1866. 
Murdock,  (W.)     Poems  and  Songs.     12°,  pp.   150.     St.  John,  N.  B., 

1860. 
Murphy,  (W.  D.)      The  Burial  of  W.  Colgate.     8°,  pp.  8.     New  York, 

1857. 
Musings  at  an    Evening  Club  in  Boston.       (Anon.)       16°,  pp.  53. 

Boston,  1819. 
Musical  Miscellany,  The  Boston.     18°,  pp.  192.     Boston,  1811. 
Muzzy,  (Mrs.  Harriet.)     Poems.     12°,  pp.  iv,  200.     New  York,  1821. 
Myers,  (P.  H.) 

Peter  Hamilton  Myers  was  born  at  Herkimer,  N.  Y.,  in  August,  ISl.T,  and  for  some 
time  was  a  member  of  the  Brooklyn  bar.  He  was  the  author  of  several  historical  roman- 
ces.  His  later  residence  was  in  Aubtirn,  N.  Y.,  wliere  he  died  in  October,  1878.  Mr.  51. 
was  the  author  of  other  poems,  and  of  several  prose  productions. 

—  Ensenore.     8°,  pp.  104.     New  York,  1840. 


178  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

Myneiiieuk  Von  Herrick  Heimelman,  the  Dancing  Master  ;  or, 
The  Confluence  of  Nassau  Street  and  Maiden  Lane,  as  it 
WAS  Whilom,  etc.     (Anon.)     12°,  pp.  19.     New  York,  1824. 

Mysteries  of  Odd  Felloavsiiip.  A  Farce.  12°,  pp.  32.  Philadel- 
phia, no  date. 

Mystical  Craft,  The.      (Anon.)      12°,  pp.  24.     New  York,  1844. 

Nack,  (J.) 

James  Nack  was  born  in  the  city  of  New  Y^ork  about  tlie  year  1807.  In  consequence 
of  an  accident  he  became  deaf  at  the  age  of  nine.  He  early  developed  remarkable  mental 
ability,  especially  in  the  acquisition  of  languages.  He  published  a  volume  of  poems  writ- 
ten between  the  fourteenth  and  seventeenth  years  of  his  age  which  showed  a  singular 
poetical  talent. 

—  Earl  Rupert,  etc.      12°,  pp.  xx,  219.     New  York,  1839. 

—  Legend  of  the  Rocks,  etc.     12°,  pp.  204.     New  York,  1827. 

—  The  Immortal,  etc.      12°,  pp.  vi,  172.     New  York,  1850. 

—  The  Romance  of  the  Ring,  etc.     12°,  pp.  232.     New  York,  1859. 

Nahant:  Things  to  be  Seen  by  the  Sea,  etc.      (Anon.)     8°,  pp.   6. 

Boston,  1862. 
Napoleon  Bonaparte,    The    Second    Downfall  of.     (Anon.)     16°, 

pp.  11.     No  place,  no  date. 
Nature,  etc.      (Anon.)      12°,  pp.  36.     Boston,  1839. 
Nature,  The  Teachings  of.      (Anon.)     18°,  pp.  84.     Boston,  1845. 

Nautilus,  The.     Contributions   for  the    Seamen's    Missions.      (Anon.) 
12°,  pp.  63.     Philadelphia,  1855. 

Neal,  (J.) 

John  Neal  was  born  at  Portland,  Me.,  October  25,  179.3,  was  in  commercial  business 
for  a  time  in  Baltimore,  then  studied  law,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar.  His  reputation 
rests  upon  his  writings,  which  have  been  very  numerous  and  of  a  varied  character,  for  an 
account  of  which  see  Allibone,  p.  1801.    He  died  June  20,  1870. 

—  Niagara,  etc.      12°,  pp.  xiii,  143.     Baltimore,  1818. 

Nebraska:  Personal  and  Political.     (Anon.)     12°,  pp.  42.    Boston 

and  Cleveland,  1854. 
Needham,   (J.   R.)      The   Pleasm-es  of  Poverty.     12°,   pp.   12.     New 

York,  1837. 
Nellie  Grey.      (By  S.  C.  S.     Anon.)     Sq.  24°,  pp.  7.     Philadelphia, 

1869. 


AMERICAX    POETRY.  179 

Nelmes,  (T.  E.)     The  Lays  of  a  Wanderer.      12°,  pp.  117.     New  York, 

1856. 
Neptune,  The  Court  of,  etc.     18°,  pp.  106.     New  York,  1817. 
Nettleton,  (A.)     Village  Hymns.     24°,  pp.  452.     New  York,  1828. 

New  Bedford  Traders  in  Rhyme.      (Anon.)      18°,  pp.  23.     New  Bed- 
ford. 1860. 
Newell,  (R.  H.) 

Robert  Henry  Newell,  whose  nom  de  plume  was  Orpheus  C.  Kerr,  was  born  in  the 
city  of  New  York,  December  13,  1836,  was  liberally  educated,  and  for  a  time  was  in  busi- 
ness. He  was  the  literary  editor  of  the  Xew  York  Mercury,  1858-63,  moved  to  California 
in  1863,  was  an  editor  of  the  Xew  York  World,  1869-74,  and  subsequently  took  charge  of 
The  Hearth  and  Home, 

—  The  Martyr  President.     12°,  pp.  43.     New  York,  1865, 

—  The  Palace  Beautiful,  etc.      12°,  pp.  178.     New  York,  1865. 

—  Versatilites.     12°,  pp.  iv,  266.     Boston  and  New  York,  1871. 

New  England  Drama,  The.  Founded  on  Incidents  contained  in  the 
New  England  Tale.      12°,  pp.  72.     Dedham,  1825. 

New  England  ;  or.  The  Age  of  Brass.  Dedicated  to  the  President 
and  Gentlemen  of  the  Society  of  Plymouth.  (Anon.)  Sq.  16°, 
pp.  28.     New  York,  1875. 

New  Fashioned  Girl,  The.     A  Story  of  To-Day.     12°,  pp.  30.    New 

York,  1870. 
New  Hampshire  Book,  The.     Names  of  Editors  not  given.     Prose  and 

Poems.      12°,  pp.  X,  391.     Nashua,  1842. 

New  Hampshire,  Festival  of  the  Sons  of.  November  7,  1849.  Sev- 
eral Poems  in  the  volume.     8°,  pp.  178.     Boston,  1850. 

Newman,  (B.  J.)  The  Eagle  of  Washington.  A  Story  of  the  Revolu- 
tion.     12°,  pp.  xiv,  152.     Louisville,  1859. 

Newman,  (J.  C.)  The  Harmonies  of  Creation.  16°,  pp.  xvi,  256. 
Baltimore,  1836. 

New  Orleans  Book,  The.  (Edited  by  Robert  G.  Barnwell.)  Prose 
and  Poetical  Extracts.      12°,  pp.  xii,  348.     New  Orleans,  1851. 

New  Orleans,  The    Battle  of.      (Anon.)     16°,  pp.  36.     Baltimore, 
1825. 
26 


180  llAKKIS    COLLECTION. 

Nkw   Yr.Au's    AnnKK.^s,  A.      A   Circular,  etc.      (Anon.)      12°,    pp.   24. 

IVoviilonoo,  \So~. 
Ni:\v  Y..i;k.     A  Glamv  at.      (Anon.)      12°,  pp.  32.     New  York,  no  date. 

Nkw  Yokk  Book  ok  Poktry,  Thk.  A  Compilation.  (Anon.)  8°,  pp. 
ooo.     Now  York,  1837. 

Nkw  Youic.  Tho  Streets  ot\  ("Sphinx.")  12°,  pp.  95.  Florence, 
Italy,  ISoC. 

Niagara.  By  a  member  of  the  Ohio  Bar.  (Anon.)  8°,  pp.  11.  New 
York,  1848. 

Niagara,  The  Falls  of.     (Anon.)     8°,  pp.  30.     Ne^v  York,  1829. 

Nicholas.  (S.  H.)  Monte  Rosa.  The  Epic  of  the  Alp.  12°,  pp.  148. 
Boston,  1883. 

Nichols,  (J.  H.)  Poem  delivered  before  the  Association  of  the  Alumni 
of  "Washington  College,  August  3,  1842.  8°,  pp.  16.  New  Haven, 
1842. 

Nichols,  (J.  N.)  The  New  England  Coquette,  from  the  history  of  the 
celebrated  Eliza  "Wharton.      12°,  pp.  44.     Salem,  no  date. 

Nichols,  (Mrs.  Louisa  H.)     Poems.     12°,  pp.  110.     New  York,  1859. 

Nichols,  (Mrs.  Rebecca  S.) 

Rebecca  S.  Reed,  born  at  Greenwich,  N.  J.,  married  in  1838  to  Willard  Nichols,  pub- 
lisher of  a  paper  in  St.  Louis.  Slie  assisted  him  in  the  editorial  department,  and  subse- 
quently lived  ten  years,  1841-51,  in  Cincinnati,  where  she  engaged  in  literary  pursuits. 
Slie  acquired  a  justly  deserved  reputation  for  her  poetical  productions. 

—  Bernice  ;  or.  The  Curse  of  Minna,  etc.      12°,  pp.  21G.     Cincinnati, 

1844. 

—  Songs  of  the  Heart,  etc.     8°,  pp.  319.     Philadelphia  and  Cincinnati, 

1851. 

Nicholson,  (E.  G.)     The  Votaries  of  Twilight.     8°,  pp.  32.     1840. 

Nicholson,  (G.  "W.  H.)  The  Ages  of  Sin;  or.  Hints  for  Critics.  A 
Satire.     12°,  pp.  82.     Philadelphia,  1851. 

;Mr.  Nicholson  was  a  Baltimore  lawyer. 

Nicholson,  (G.  "W.  S.)  A  Budget  of  Youthful  Fancy.  12°,  pp.  195. 
Philadelphia,  1850. 

—  Poems  of  the  Heart.     12°,  pp.  120.     Philadelphia,  1850. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  181 

NiCOLAUS,  (J.  Secundus.)  Epithalmium,  The ;  or,  Nuptial  Song. 
Translated  by  Dr.  John  Nott.  4°,  pp.  64.  Philadelphia,  pri- 
vately printed,   185G. 

Only  twenty  copies. 

Night.      (Anon.)     8°,  pp.  60.     New  York,  1845. 

Night,  A  Foggy,  at  Newport.      (Anon.)     12°,   pp.  39.     St.  Louis, 

1860. 
Night  Watches  ;  or,  The  Peace  of  the  Cross.     (By  E.  L.     Anon.) 

12°,  pp.  xii,  248.     Philadelphia,  1853. 
Niles,  (S.) 

Samuel  Niles  was  born  in  1074,  graduated  at  Harvard  in  1699,  and  for  some  time 
preached  in  a  district  in  Rhode  Island  called  "Ministerial  Lands."  He  was  ordained 
Pastor  of  the  Second  Congregational  church  in  Braintree,  Mass.,  May  23,  1711.  He  died 
May  1,  1702. 

—  Essay  on  God's  Wonder- Working  Providence  for  New  England,  etc. 

18°,  pp.  34.     London,  1747. 
Nine  Muses,  Fagnini's.     Sq.  16°,  pp.  21.     No  place,  no  date. 
Noah,  (M.  M.) 

Mordecai  Manuel  Noah  was  born  at  Philadelphia,  July  19, 1785,  removed  to  Charleston, 
S.  C,  studied  law,  and  interested  himself  in  politics,  was  consul  to  Morocco  1813-16,  settled 
in  New  York,  and  for  many  years  was  actively  engaged  in  journalism.  His  attempt  to 
establish  a  Jewish  Colony  on  Grand  Island,  in  the  Niagara  river,  is  well  known.  He  died 
in  New  Y'ork  Cily,  March  22,  1851. 

—  The  Fortress  of  Sorrento.      18°,  pp.  28.     New  York,  1868. 

—  The  Grecian    Captive  ;  or.  The   Fall  of  Athens.       18°,  pp.  iv,  48. 

New  York,  1822. 
Noble,  (L.  L.) 

Louis  Legrand  Noble  was  born  in  Ostego  county,  N.  Y.,  in  1812,  became,  in  1840,  a 
clergyman  in  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  preached  in  North  Carolina,  then  at  Cats- 
kill,  N..Y.,  and  in  1854  was  called  to  be  Rector  of  a  church  in  Chicago.  He  published  a 
memoir  of  Thomas  Cole,  the  painter. 

—  The  Lady  Angeline.     A  Lay  of  the  Apalachians,  etc.      12°,  pp.  viii, 

118.     New  York,  1856. 
NoCTE  CoGiTATA.       Latin   of  Young's    Night    Thoughts.      12°,   pp.   21. 

Caroloppidii,  Mass.,  1786. 
NORTHAU,  (W.  K.)     Macbeth  Travestie.      12°,  pp.  36.     New  York,  1848. 

NORTHMORE,  (T.) 

Thomas  Northmore  was  an  English  poet,  born  near  Exeter,  and  received  his  educa- 
tion at  .Jesus  College,  Cambridge.  He  resided  on  his  estate,  occupying  his  time,  in  part,  in 
literary  pursuits.  (See  "  London  Review,"  ii,  pp.  365-75,  for  a  severe  criticism  of  the 
following  poem.) 


162  IIAKKIS    COLLECTION. 

NouTiiMOUK,  (T.)  —  Continued. ■ 

—  Washington  ;  or,  Liberty  Restored.     A   Poem  in  Ten  Books.      12°, 

pp.  viii,  253.     Baltimore,  1809. 

NOKTON,    (A.) 

Aiulrcws  Norton,  the  eniincnt  Biblical  scholar,  was  born  at  Hinghani,  Mass.,  Decem- 
ber 31,  17Sr>,  graduated  at  Harvard  in  1804,  and,  for  many  years,  was  connected  with  the 
University  as  tutor,  professor  and  librarian.  (See  Allibone,  pp.  H37-.38.)  He  died  at  New- 
port,  K.  I.,  September  18,  1S53. 

—  Verses.     8°,  pp.  55.     No  place,  1853. 

North  Stak,  The.  The  Poetry  of  Freedom.  By  Her  Friends.  (Anon.) 
18°,  pp.  vi,  118.     Philadelphia,  1840. 

NoKAViCH,  Conn.,  Jubilee,  September  7th  and  8th,  1859.  Several 
Poems  in  the  volume.     Lg.  8°,  pp.  304.     Norwich,  Conn.,  1859. 

Nothing  to  Do.     (Anon.)     Illustrated.     12°,  pp.  48.     Boston,  1857. 

Nothing  to  Eat.       (Anon.)      Illustrated.      12°,  pp.  117.     New  York, 

1857. 

Nothing  to  AVear.  (Anon.)  Sq.  18°,  not  paged.  Philadelphia,  no 
date. 

Nothing  to  You.  (Anon.)  Illustrated  by  Howard.  12°,  pp.  68. 
New  York,  1857. 

Notice  sur  la  vie  et  Les  Ecrits  de  M.  Joel  Barlow,  Ministre  Pleni- 
potentaire  des  Etats  Unis  d'Amerique,  etc.  4°,  pp.  31.  No  place, 
1813. 

This  volume  is  a  French  translation  of  Book  I.  of  Barlow's  Columbiad. 

NowELL,  (E.  P.)  Ballad  of  Jefferson  D.  24°,  pp.  14.  Portsmouth, 
1865. 

NowELL,  (Sarah  A.)     Poems.     12°,  pp.  208.     Boston,  1850. 

NouRSE,  (J.)     The  Book  of  Psalms.     24°,  pp.  224,     New  York,  1842. 

No  YES,  (G.  R.) 

Gtorge  Rapall  Noyes  was  born  at  Newburyport,  Mass.,  March  6,  1798,  graduated  at 
Harvard  iu  1818,  and  after  preaching  several  years,  was  appointed,  1840,  professor  in  his 
alma  mater,  and  continued  in  office  till  his  death,  June  3,  1868. 

—  Amended  Version  of  the  Book  of  Job.     Lg.  8°,  pp.  ix,  116.     Cam- 

bridge, 1827. 


AMEEICAX    POETEY.  183 

NuxES,  (J.  A.,  U.  S.  A.)     Day  Dreams.      12°,  pp.  134.     Philadelphia, 

1863. 
NuTALL,  (W.)     Wayside  Flowers.     32°,  pp.  82.     Philadelphia,  1845. 

Nye,  (J.  W.)  Offering  of  Friendship.  12%  pp.  168.  Lynn,  Mass., 
1860. 

Oakes,  (R.  a.)     Poems.     12°,  pp.  72.     New  York,  1859. 
Oakes,  (U.) 

Urian  Oakes,  the  fourth  President  of  Harvard  College,  was  born  in  England  about  the 
year  1631,  was  brought  to  America  when  a  child  by  his  parents,  graduated  at  Harvard  in 
1649,  returned  to  England,  and  for  some  time  was  a  preacher  there,  under  the  Protectorate, 
having  charge  of  the  living  of  Titchfield,  Hampshire.  This  position  he  held  till  the  Resto- 
ration of  Charles  II,  when  he  was  compelled  to  give  up  his  parish.  In  1671  he  came  back 
to  this  country,  and  was  called  to  the  pastorate  of  the  church  in  Cambridge,  Mass.  Hav- 
ing been  elected  President  of  Harvard,  he  entered  upon  the  duties  of  his  office  April  7, 
1675,  still  retaining  his  connection  with  the  church  in  Cambridge.  He  died  July  25, 1081. 
(See  "  Sibley's  Harvard  Graduates,"  vol.  i,  pp.  173-185.) 

—  An  Elegy  upon  the  Death  of  the  Reverend  Mr.  Thomas  Shepard,  late 
Teacher  of  the  Church  at  Charlestown,  in  New  England,  etc.  Lg. 
16°,  pp.  16.     Cambridge,  printed  by  Samuel  Green,  1677. 

The  copy  in  "  The  Harris  Collection  "  is  Xo.  835  of  the  Brinley  sale,  and  was  pur- 
chased for  $57.50,  is  in  every  respect  perfect,  and  bound  in  the  highest  style  of  the  bind- 
er's art. 

President  Oakes  held  a  high  place  in  the  regards  of  his  cotemporaries.  Professor 
Tyler  says  of  him  :  "  He  was  distinguished  in  his  day  for  the  unsurpassed  elegance  and 
fluency  of  his  Latin;  and  with  respect  to  his  English,  it  is,  perhaps,  the  richest  prose 
style;  it  furnishes  the  most  brilliant  examples  of  originality,  breadth  and  force  of  thought, 
set  aglow  by  flame  of  passion,  by  flame  of  imagination,  to  be  met  with  in  our  sermon-liter- 
ature from  the  settlement  of  our  country  down  to  the  Revolution."  He  adds  that  "  the 
one  example  that  is  left  to  us  of  his  verse,  reaches  the  highest  point  touched  by  American 
poetry  during  the  same  era.  It  was  within  a  few  days  after  the  death  of  'Mr.  Shepard' 
that  Oakes  published  his  elegy,  a  poem  in  fifty-two  six-lined  stanzas;  not  without  some 
mechanical  defects;  blurred  also  by  some  patches  of  the  prevailing  theological  jargon; 
yet  upon  the  whole,  affluent,  stately,  pathetic;  beautiful  and  strong  with  the  beauty  and 
strength  of  true  imaginative  vision."  Dr.  Abiel  Holmes  says  :  "  This  elegy  of  considerable 
length  ....  rises,  in  my  judgment,  far  aljove  the  poetry  of  the  day.  It  is  of  Pindaric 
measure,  and  is  plaintive,  pathetic  and  replete  with  imagery." 

This  is  high  praise,  but  if  the  Harvard  President  be  judged  by  the  poetic  standard  of 
those  early  Puritan  days,  probably  it  is  not  exaggerated. 

Oakley,  (J.)  Our  Village.  Delivered  at  Flatbush,  N.  Y.,  February  23, 
1863.     12°,  pp.  36.     New  York,  1863. 

O'Brien,  (Lieut.  L.,  8tli  U.  S.  Infantry.)  The  Unpublished  "Writings. 
Transcribed  from  the  Original  by  his  Son.  12°,  pp.  17.  Leaven- 
worth, 1867. 


184  II  A  Kills    COLLECTION. 

OllKKHOLT/.KK,    (MlJS.   8.  L.) 

Siiriih  Louisa  Vickcrs  WHS  born  at  I'nchhin,  Christie  county,  Va.,  May  20,  1S41,  mar- 
ried Jolin  ObiM-holtzcr  in  1801,  and  resides,  as  the  season  of  the  year  may  be,  at  Norris- 
town.  Pa.,  and  Longport,  N.  Y.  She  has  contributed  not  a  little  to  the  periodical  litera- 
ture ot'tlie  day. 

—  Come  for  Arbutus,  etc.      12°,  pp.  117.     riiiladelpliia,  1882. 

—  Daisies  of  Verse.      12°,  pp.  102.     Philadelphia,  1886. 

—  Violet  Lee,  and  other  Poems.      12°,  pp.  143.     Philadelphia,  1873. 

OccriJUEXCES  OF  THE  TiMEs  ;  OR,  The  Transactions  of  Four  Days.  A 
P^iroe.      16°,  pp.  23.     Boston,  1789. 

Ocean  AVaves  in  Lyric  Strains.  (Anon.)  8°,  pp.  viii,  88.  Pitts- 
burgh, Pa.,  1850. 

Ode  Suggested  by  Rembrandt  Peale's  National  Portrait  of  Wash- 
ington.    8°,  pp.  8.     Philadelphia,  1824. 

Odell,  (J.[?])  The  Times.  A  Satirical  Poem,  written  during  the  Ameri- 
can Revolution,  by  the  Rev.  Mr.  Odell.  Sm.  4°,  pp.  40.  New 
Jersey.     Printed  but  not  publi.shed.     No  date. 

—  Same.      12°,  pp.  26.     No  place,  no  date. 

Odiorne,  (T.) 

Thomas  Odiorne  was  born  about  the  year  irSO,  and  died  in  1851. 

—  The  Progress  of  Refinement  and  Influence   of  Nature.      18°,  pp.   x, 

176.     Boston,  1792. 

In  its  outward  dress,  one  of  the  most  attractive  books  in  the  collection. 

Oehlschlaegek,  (C.  J.)  The  Tragedy  of  Reason  and  other  Poems. 
12°,  pp.  103.     Utica,  1882. 

Ogee,  (Quirk,  LL.  T>.,  pseud.)  Extracts  from  Humbugiana,  etc.  12°, 
pp.  24.     Gotham,  1847. 

Ojebway  and  English  Hymns.  (Compiled.)  18°,  pp.  236.  Toronto, 
1860. 

Olavide,  (D.  p.)  El  E.scandalo.  Poema  Christiano.  18°,  pp.  11. 
Guayaquil,  1839. 

—  El  Fin  del  Ilombre.     Poema  Christiano.      18°,  pp.  12.     Guayaquil, 

1839. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  185 

Old  Buck's  Feast  ;  or,  The  Power  of  Office.    By  Diyden,  Jr. ,  (ijsend.) 
12°,  pp.  15.     No  place,  no  date. 

Old   Fashioned   'Lection,  and   the    Cake.     (Anon.)      32°,    pp.    12. 
Hartford,  1869. 

Olio;  or.  Satirical  Hodge  Podge.     (Anon.)     8°,  pp.  iv,  4G..     1801. 

A  satirical  poem  written  at  a  period  of  intense  political  excitement  by  a  warm  admirer 
of  Jefferson. 

In  an  "  Introductory  Letter  to  a  Friend,"  the  writer  says  :  "  Tlie  characters  of  the 
Poem  are  drawn  from  ?■<?«?  Life  and  Conduct ;  no  fancied  Production  of  the  Pen  or  Mind,  as 
you  know.  And  if  the  Lights  and  Shades,  or,  as  the  Artist  would  term  it,  the  Claraobscura 
had  been  well  managed,  the  whole  would  have  appeared  to  greater  advantage.  You  may 
call  it  a  Family  Picture,  if  you  please,  or  at  least  the  whole  are  politically  related,  and  the 
only  variation  you  will  find,  is  where  the  change  of  matter  has  produced  it,  merely  as  a 
relief  to  the  Reader  by  way  of  contrast." 

Olio,  The.     (Anon.)      18°,  pp.  104.     New  York,  1823. 
Oliver,  (I.) 

Miss  Isabella  Oliver  was  the  daughter  of  James  Oliver,  Esq!,  of  Cumberland  county, 
Penn.,  "a  worthy  citizen,  an  eminent  mathematician,  of  whom  she  was  deprived  when 
about  fourteen  years  of  age."  Her  opportunities  for  acquiring  an  education  were  of  the 
most  limited  character,  and  these  poems  were  composed  while  she  was  engaged  in  the 
common  affairs  of  life,  or  while  taking  a  walk,  and  finished  without  putting  pen  to  paper. 
The  copy  in  "  The  Harris  Collection  "  is  richly  bound,  and  is  one  of  the  varieties  of  the 
Collection. 

— Poems  on  Various  Subjects.     12°,  pp.  220.     Carlisle,  1805. 

Oliver,  (J.  E.)    Class  Poem  of  1849,  Harvard.     12°,  pp.  12.     "Printed 
not  published." 

Oliver,  (Isabella.)     Poems.     16°,  pp.  220.     Carlisle,  1805. 

Oliver,  (P.) 

Peter  Oliver  was  born  at  Boston  March  26,  171.3,  and  graduated  at  Harvard  in  1730. 
Subsequently  he  filled  several  stations  of  important  civil  trust  in  Plymouth  county,  Mass. 
Although  not  a  professional  lawyer  he  was  made  a  judge,  September  14,  1756,  and  after 
serving  in  a  subordinate  capacity  for  fifteen  years,  he  was,  in  1771,  made  Chief  Justice.  It 
was  a  time  of  great  excitement  in  the  Commonwealth  in  consequence  of  what  were 
regarded  as  the  oppressive  acts  of  the  Mother  Country.  The  House  of  Representatives,  in 
March,  1771,  voted  salaries  for  the  Superior  Judges,  and  forbade  them  to  receive  anything 
from  the  royal  treasury.  Four  of  the  judges  acquiesced  in  the  new  arrangement,  but 
Oliver  refused  compliance.  The  House  impeached  him  and  he  was  suspended  from  office. 
Openly  siding  with  the  Tories,  when  the  British  troops  evacuated  Boston  he  left  with 
them,  and  after  various  fortunes  went  to  England.  He  resided  chiefly  in  Birmingham, 
where  he  died  October  1.3,  1791. 

Judge  Oliver  received  from  Oxford,  in  1776,  the  degree  of  J.  C.  D.  He  is  supposed  to 
have  been  the  author  of  No.  xxix  of  the  famous  "PietasetGratulatio,"  the  elegant  quarto 
volume  in  which  were  celebrated  the  death  of  George  II,  the  accession  of  George  III, 


186  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

Oliver,  (P.)  —  Continued. 

with  the  Epithalamia  on  the  marriage  of  the  Princess  Charlotte.  The  subject  of  the  poem 
referred  to  below  was  the  son  of  Rev.  Samuel  Willanl,  the  pastor  of  the  Old  South  Church, 
and  was  born  in  Boston  in  1(')80,  and  graduated  at  Harvard  in  1(508.  For  a  time  he  was 
Tutor  and  Librarian  in  the  college.  Having  made  a  somewhat  extcded  tour  in  Europe,  he 
returned  to  his  native  land,  and  was  appointed  Secretary  of  the  Colony,  which  office  he  held 
for  thirty-nine  years.  He  was  also  Judge  of  Probate  and  a  member  of  the  Council.  "  He 
was  as  remarkable  for  his  aimable  manners  as  for  his  piety."   His  death  took  place  in  1756. 

—  Poem  sacred  to  the  memory  of  the  Honorable  Josiah  Willard,  late 

Secretary  of  the  Province  of  the  Massachusetts  Bay,  etc.     (Anon.) 

Lg.  18°,  pp.  16.     Boston,  1757. 

A  choice  copy  richly  bound. 

Opdyke  Libel  Suit,  The.      (Anon.)     8°,  pp.  G2.     New  York,  1865. 

Oppression.     By  an  American,  Avith  notes  by  a  North  Briton.     8°,   pp. 
20.     Boston,  1765. 

Orgallez,  (M.)     Poesias.     Sq.  16°,  pp.  110.     Habana,  1858. 

Ormusd's  Triumph.     (Anon.)     12°,  pp.  100.     New  York,  1842. 

Orne,  (Caroline  F.)     Sweet  Auburn,  etc.     12°,  pp.  196.     Cambridge, 
1844. 

Orphan  Twins,  The.     (Anon.)     12°,  pp.  100.     New  York,  1849. 

Orphan's   Souvenir.      A  Rochester  Book.     (Anon.)       16°,   pp.    200. 
Rochester,  1843. 

Orton,  (J.  R.)     Arnold,  etc.     12°,  pp.  144.     New  York,  1854. 

Osborne,  (L.) 

Laughton  Osborne  was  born  in  New  York  City  not  far  from  1800,  and  graduated  at 
Columbia  College  in  18~7.    He  died  in  1878. 

In  his  •'  Sketches  of  the  Literati,"  Edgar  A.  Poe,  whose  genius  in  some  respects  was 
akin  to  that  of  Osborne,  alludes  to  this  poet.  Duyckink  says  that  all  his  books  which  were 
published  anonymously  "  have  been  of  a  character  to  excite  attention.  They  are  bold, 
discursive,  play  some  tricks  with  good  taste  and  propriety,  and  upon  the  whole  are  not 
less  remarkable  for  their  keenness  of  perception  than  for  their  want  of  judgment  in  its  dis- 
play. With  more  skill  and  a  just  proportion,  the  writer's  powers  would  have  made  a 
deeper  impression  on  the  public.  As  it  is,  he  has  rather  addea  to  the  curiosities  of  litera  - 
ture  than  to  the  familiar  companions  of  the  library." 

In  addition  to  tlie  three  volumes  referred  to  below,  Laughton  wrote  Slvtt/  Years  of  the 
Life  0/ Jeremy  Lewis,  The  Dream  of  AUaad-Deen,  from  the  Romance  of  Anastasia ,  The 
Confessions  of  a  Poet,  The  Vision  of  Rubeta,  an  Epic  Story  of  the  Island  of  Manhattan, 
rcith  Illustrations  done  on  Stone.  This  last  satire,  which  was  published  in  Boston  in  1838, 
and  brought  out  in  an  elegant  octavo  form,  was  especially  aimed  at  Colonel  Stone,  of  the 
Commercial  Advertiser.  It  contains  also  a  tierce  onslaught  on  Wordsworth.  "Arthur 
Carryll"  is  considered  the  most  creditable  of  the  author's  works. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  187 

Osborne,  (L.)  —  Continued. 

—  Arthur  Carryl.     Cantos  First   and  Second,   etc.     8°.      New   York, 

1841. 

—  Bianca  Lapello.     A  Tragedy.      12°,  pp.  419.     New  York,  1868. 

—  Calvary,  Virginia.     Tragedies.      12°,  pp.  200.     New  York,  1867. 

Osgood,  (Frances  S.) 

Frances  S.  Locke  was  born  at  Boston,  June  18,  1811,  and  passed  the  early  part  of  her 
life  in  Hingham,  Mass.  Under  the  signature  of  "Florence,"  she  wrote  a  number  of 
short  poems  which  attracted  considerable  attention.  In  1835  she  married  Mr.  S.  S.  Os- 
good, a  then  rising  artist  to  whom  she  sat  for  her  portrait.  They  went  to  London  soon 
after  their  marriage  and  remained  abroad  four  years,  both  husband  and  wife  gaining  well 
deserved  reputation  by  the  productions  of  pencil  and  pen.  In  1840  they  returned  to  the 
United  States,  and  passed  most  of  the  remainder  of  their  lives  in  tlie  city  of  New  York. 
Her  death  from  consumption  took  place  at  Hingliam,  May  12,  1850.  The  last  production 
of  her  pen  was  prophetic  of  the  near  approach  of  death  : 
"  I'm  going  through  the  eternal  gates 

Ere  June's  sweet  roses  blow; 
Death's  lonely  .■ingel  leads  me  there. 
And  it  is  sweet  to  go." 
Thomas  Buchanan  Read,  one  of  the  frontispieces  of  whose  beautiful  volume  "  The 
Female  Poets  of  Anlerica  "  is  a  portrait  of  Mrs.  Osgood,  says :  "A  charming  naivete,  an 
exquisite  simplicity,  an  inimitable  peace,  with  at  times  a  thrilling  and  impassioned  ear- 
nestness are  Mrs.  Osgood's  characteristics  as  a  writer." 

—  A  Letter  About  the  Lions.      24°,  pp.  24.     New  York,  1849. 

—  A  Wreath  of  WikI  Flowers.     2d  Edition.      12°,  pp.   364.     London 

and  Boston,  1842.  f 

—  Poems.     8°,  pp.  466.     Phikidelphia,  1849. 

—  Same.     Lg.  8°.     Philadelphia,  1850. 

—  Same.      18°,  pp.  252.     New  York,  1861.     Blue  and  Gold  Series. 

—  The  Casket  of  Fate.     32°,  pp.  67.     Boston,  1840. 

—  The  Snow  Drop.     Sq.  24°,  pp.  88.     Providence,  1842. 

Our  Book.  A  Call  from  Salem's  Watch-Towers  in  behalf  of  Unitarian 
Churches.  A  few  Poems  in  the  volume.  12°,  pp.  iv,  72.  Salem, 
1844. 

OuTCROPPiNGS.  Selections  of  California  Verses.  Sq.  16°,  pp.  144.  San 
Francisco  and  New  York,  1866. 

OuTARSON,  (F.  J.)  Poem.  Tribune  Dinner,  January  14,  1855.  Re- 
port of  the  Proceedings.     8°,  pp.  32.     New  York,  1855. 

Owen,  (M.)     Ballads  of  Portland.     24°,  pp.  160.     Portland,  1874. 
27 


188  II  AUK  IS    COLLECTION 


OwKN,  (R.  D.) 

Robert  Dale  Owfu  wjis  born  iit  (ilaegow,  .ScothiiRl,  Novoiuber  7,  1!?01,  came  to  the 
Cniteil  Slates  in  ISL'3,  and  was  identitied  with  the  New  Harmony,  Indiana,  Communistic 
Colony.  He  was  a  member  of  Congie,-s  two  terms,  and  distinguished  liimsell' by  introduc- 
ing the  bill  lor  the  establishment  of  the  Smithsonian  Institution.  For  five  years  he  was 
United  States  Minister  to  Naples.  He  rendered  valuable  service  to  the  country  in  the  Civil 
War.     His  death  took  place  June  24,  1872. 


Pocahontas.     8°,  pp.  47.      New  York,  1831 


Pabodik,  (W.  J.) 

William  Jewett  I'abodie  was  born  at  I'rovidence,  K.  I.,  not  far  from  the  year  1815. 
He  was  a  lawyer  by  profession  and  practiced  in  his  native  city.    He  died  in  1870. 

—  Calidore :  A  Legendary  Poem.     8°,  pp.  48.     Bcston,  1859. 
Packard,  (Hannah  J.) 

She  was  born  at  Duxburv,  Slass.,  April  15,  1815,  and  in  early  life  developed  remark- 
able poetic  talent,  and  ranked  high  as  a  scholar.  She  died  August  10,  18.31.  For  notice  of 
her  poems  see  American  Monthly  Review,  ii.  73. 

—  The  Clioice.      A  Tragedy,  etc.      18°,  pp.  142.      Boston,  1832. 

Page,  (Ann.)     A  Tribute  for  Pupils  designed  for  tSabbath  Schools.     Vol. 
1.      18°,  f.p.  119.     Providence,  1842. 

Paine,  (R.  T.,  Jr.) 

Robert  Treat  Paine,  .Jr.,  originally  bore  the  name  of  Thomas.  As  this  was  the  name 
of  "Tom"  Paine,  tlie  well-known  author  of  "The  Age  of  Reason,"  the  subject  of  this 
sketch,  at  the  age  of  twenty-eight,  pleading  that  he  had  no  Christian  name,  presented  a 
petition  to  the  Massachusetts  Legislature  asking  that  he  might  be  allowed  to  take  that 
of  his  distinguished  father,  Robert  Treat  Paine,  celebrated  in  American  History  as  one  of 
the  signers  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence.  Hence  the  Jr.  attached  to  his  name.  He 
was  born  in  Taunton,  Mass.,  December  9,  1773,  and  graduated  at  Harvard  in  1792.  Among 
his  classmates  were  Professor  Levi  Hedge,  and  that  eminent  Greek  scholar  Professor  John 
Snelling  Popkin,  and  the  Hon.  William  Sullivan.  It  is  related  that  be  became  aware  of 
his  possession  of  the  poetic  gift  in  the  following  way  :  "  One  of  his  classmates  wrote  a 
squib  on  him  in  verse,  on  the  college  wall,  and  Paine  on  consultation  with  his  friends  was 
advised  to  retaliate  in  kind."  He  found  on  making  the  attempt  that  he  could  do  it,  and 
thereafter  he  wrote  many  productions  in  verse.  So  accusomed  did  he  become  to  write  in 
rhyme  that  having  entered  a  counting  house  to  fit  himself  for  a  business  career,  "  he  made 
entries  in  his  day-book  in  poetry,  and  once  made  out  a  charter-party  in  the  same  style." 
He  found  time  while  occupied  witli  the  duties  of  his  apprenticeship  to  prepare  a  number 
of  articles  for  the  "Seat  of  the  Muses,"  of  the  "  Massachusetts  Magazine."  When  the  Fed- 
eral street  theatre  was  opened,  February  4,  1794,  he  wrote  the  prize  prologue  for  the  occa- 
sion. Among  the  actresses  was  Miss  Baker,  a  young  lady  of  sixteen,  with  whom  he  fell  in 
love,  and  subsequently,  to  the  very  great  displeasure  of  his  father,  who,  for  the  act,  turned 
him  out  of  doors,  he  married  her.  He  now  abandoned  his  purpose  to  enter  mercantile 
life,  and  gave  himself  up  to  literary  pursuits,  the  productions  of  his  pen  being  very  popular 
and  for  a  time  lucrative.  In  1800  he  was  a  student  at  law  under  Mr.,  afterwards  Chief 
Justice,  Parsons,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  but  drawn  away  by  the  fascinations  of  the 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  189 

Paine,  (R.  T.,  Jr.)  —  Continued. 

theatre  he  gave  up  his  profession  and  for  several  years  lived  a  somewhat  shiftless  sort 
of  life,  and  died  in  Boston,  November  13, 1811.  His  song,  "Adams  and  Liberty,  "  was  very 
famous,  and  yielded  him  a  prolit  of  more  than  seven  hundred  and  fifty  dollars. 

—  Monody  on   the   Death   of  Sir  John   Moore.     8°,   pp.  32.     Boston, 

1811. 

—  The  Hasty-Pudding,  etc.      18°,  pp.  32.     Hallowell,  1815. 

—  Works.     8°,  pp.  Ixxxiv,  454.     Boston,  1812. 

—  The  Invention  of  Letters.     8°,  pp.  10.     Boston,  1819. 

This  poem  was  delivered  at  commencement  at  Harvard  in  1795,  on  the  occasion  of  his 
taking  the  degree  of  A.  M.  In  the  poem  were  some  lines  referring  to  Jacobinism  which 
the  college  authorities  erased.  Paine  however  spoke  them  just  as  they  were  written, 
and,  perhaps,  partly  as  the  result  of  his  boldness,  tlie  poem  became  very  popular.  Two 
large  editions  of  it  were  publis'ied  and  yielded  the  autlior  the  generous  sum  of  fifteen  hun- 
dred dollars. 

—  The  Rilling  Passion.      8°,  pp.  32.     Boston,  1797. 

This  poem  delivered  before  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa  Society  was  also  a  source  of  pecuniary 
profit  to  Paine,  yielding  him  some  twelve  hundred  dollars. 

Paine's,  Tom.,  Jests.     8°,  pp.  72.     Piiiladelphia,  1796. 

Pains  of  Memory,  etc.     12°,  pp.  115.     New  York,  1808. 

Palmer,  (B.  F.)  Poem  before  the  Society  of  the  Sons  of  New  England 
in  Pennsylvania,  December  22,  1858.  8°,  pp.  16.  Philadelphia, 
1859. 

Palmer,  (J.  C,  U.  S.  N.)  Thulia  :  A  Tale  of  the  Antarctic.  8°,  pp. 
72.     New  York,  1843. 

Palmer,  (J.  "VY.)  The  Poetry  of  Compliment  and  Coiirt.sliip.  A  Selec- 
tion.     12°,  pp.  XX,  219.     Boston,  1868. 

Palmer,  (R.) 

Ray  Palmer  was  born  at  Little  Compton,  R.  I.,  November  12,  1808,  graduated  at  Yale 
College  in  18.30,  having  among  his  classmates  Henry  Barnard,  LL.  D.,  and  Professor  Elias 
Loomis,  received  his  theological  education  at  the  divinity  school  in  Y'ale,  was  ordained  a 
Congregational  Minister  in  1835,  and  preached  in  Bath,  Me.,  Albany,  N.  Y.,  etc.  Union 
College,  in  1852,  conferred  on  him  the  degree  of  D.  D.  The  Devotional  Hymns  of  Dr. 
Palmer  take  very  high  rank  in  English  Hymnology.  His  present  residence  (1886)  is 
Newark,  N.  J. 

—  Hymns  and  Sacred  Pieces,  etc.     8°,  pp.  195.     Albany,  1865. 

—  The  Spirit's  Life.     8°,  pp.  16.     Boston,  1837. 

Palmetto  Pictures.     (Anon.)     12°,  jjp.  67.     New  York,  1863. 


190  H  AUK  IS    COLLECTION. 

Panthkon,  The  Nkw  ;  or,  The  Age  of  Black.  12°,  pp.  4  7.  New 
York,  1860. 

Pavendick,  (G.)      The  Strunger.      12°,  pp.  7(3.      Boston,  no  date. 

Paradise  Lost  ;  or.  The  Great  Dragon  Cast  Out.  (By  Luciau  Redi- 
vivus,  pseud.)      18°,  pp.  138.     New  York,  no  date. 

Paraphrase  of  the  First  Few  Chavters  of  the  Book  of  Genesis. 
(Anon.)     No  place,  no  date.     Imperfect.     8°. 

Park.  (K.) 

Roswell  Park,  D.  D.,  was  born  at  Lebanon,  Conn.,  October  1,  1807,  and  graduated  at 
the  United  States  Military  Academy,  West  Point,  and  at  Union  College,  in  July,  183L  He 
was  appointed  Lieutenant  of  Engineers  and  served  in  that  capacity  five  years,  18:n-36.  The 
next  six  years,  1830-42,  he  was  Professor  of  Natural  Philosopliy  and  Chemistry  in  the  Uni- 
versity of  Pennsylvania.  In  1843  lie  was  admitted  to  orders  in  the  Episcopal  church, 
taught  for  a  time  In  Annapolis,  and  subsequently  in  Connecticut.  For  seven  years,  1852- 
50,  lie  was  President  of  Racine  College,  and  Chancellor,  1859-63.  He  removed  in  the 
latter  year  to  Chicago  where  he  founded  a  school,  and  died  July  16, 1869.  He  published, 
1841,  Pantology;  1840,  Sketch  of  West  Point,  and  in  1853,  a  Hand-book  for  European 
travel. 

—  Jerusalem,  etc.      12°,  pp.  309.     New  York,  1857. 

Parke,  (J.)  The  Lyric  Works  of  Horace,  translated  into  Englisli  verse, 
to  which  are  added  a  number  of  Oz'iginal  Poems.  By  a  Native  of 
America.     8°.  pp.  xli,  334.     Philadelphia,  1786. 

The  name  of  the  author  is  not  found  on  the  title-page.  The  compiler  has  given  it  as 
above,  the  name  Colonel  John  Parke  having  been  written  by  some  one  under  the  words 
"  By  a  Native  of  America."  There  is  nothing  to  indicate  who  he  was,  and  nothing  about 
him  can  be  learned  from  numerous  sources  of  information  at  hand  which  treat  of  biographi- 
cal matters.  The  volume  is  dedicated  to  George  Washington,  Esq.,  etc.  The  author  says  : 
"  Many  of  these  translations  were  the  work  of  my  youthful  days  when  I  scarce  had  num- 
bered fifteen  years  in  the  scale  of  my  existence;  others  were  written  at  a  more  advanced 
period  of  life;  some  in  the  retirement  of  a  winter  cantonment;  and  others  in  the  acciden- 
tal quietude  of  a  camp." 

Parker,  (D.)     Phrenology,  etc.     8°,  pp.  40.     Lowell,  1859. 
Parker,  (H.  W.) 

Henry  Webster  Parker  was  born  at  Danby,  N.  Y.,  in  1822,  and  graduated  at  Amherst 
College  in  1843.  Mr.  Parker  has  been  a  contributor  to  the  "  North  American  Review," 
and  other  periodicals,  and  some  time  since  was  appointed  a  Professor  in  the  Agricultural 
College  at  Amherst,  Mass. 

—  Poems.      12°,  pp.  238.     Auburn,  1850. 

—  The  Story  of  a  Soul.     8°,  pp.  46.     New  York,  1852. 

Parmly,  (E.)  Poem.  Address  to  the  Graduating  Class  of  the  Balti- 
more College  of  Dental  Surgery.     8°,  pp.  30.     Baltimore,  1847. 


AMEKICAN    POETKY.  191 

Parmly,  (E.  and  a.  M.)  Memorials  "Written  During  the  Illness  and 
After  the  Death  of  Three  Little  Boys.  (By  those  who  love  them. 
Anon.)     8°,  pp.  52.     New  York,  1843. 

Parris,  (8.  B.,  M.  D.) 

Samuel  Bartlett  Parris  was  born  at  Kingston,  Mass.,  January  30,  1806.  He  com- 
menced the  study  of  the  languages  at  the  age  of  six  years.  When  lie  was  ten  he  was  pre- 
sented for  examination  to  enter  college,  and  was  admitted,  but  did  not  commence  the 
course  of  study  for  about  two  years.  He  graduated  at  Brown  University  in  1S21,  at  the 
age  of  fifteen,  with  honors,  the  Greek  oration  having  been  assigned  to  him,  and  was 
admitted  to  the  practice  of  medicine  August  31,  IS'^5,  being  a  little  more  tlian  nineteen 
years  of  age,  and  commenced  his  professional  life  in  Attleborougli,  JIass.,  in  October  of 
the  same  year.    His  death  occurred  September  21, 182~. 

—  Remains  of.     Comprising  Miscellaneous  Poems,    etc.      12°,   pp.  xii. 

Biographical  Sketch,  13-58..    Poems,   59-1 G8.     Prose,   169-312. 
Plymouth,  1829. 

Parsons,  (T.  W.) 

Thomas  William  Parsons,  M.  D.,  was  born  at  Boston,  August  18,  1819,  was  educated 
at  the  Boston  Latin  school  and  in  Europe,  became  a  dentist  and  received  from  Harvard 
College,  in  1853,  the  degree  of  M.  D.  Some  of  his  best  poems  appeared  in  the  "Knicker- 
bocker,"  etc.,  and  were  warmly  praised.  Some  of  his  works  have  been  beautifully  illustra- 
ted and  elegantly  bound,  furnishing  fine  specimens  of  American  typography  and  binding. 

—  Dante's  Inferno.     8°,  pp.  viii,  83.     Boston,  1843. 

—  Poems.     Sq.  16°,  pp.  viii,  189.     Boston,  1854. 

—  The  Magnolia.     4°,  pp.  58.     Boston,  1866. 

—  The  Old  House  at  Sudbury.      12°,  pp.  114.     Cambridge,  1870. 

—  Tlie  Willey  House  and  Sonnets.      12°,  pp.  42.     Cambridge.  1875. 

Parthknox,  The.     4°,  pp.  40.     New  York,  1851. 

Passing  Bell,  The.     An  Elegy.      (Anon.)     18°,  pp.  15.     Boston,  1789. 
Passion  Flowers.     (Anon.)     12°,  pp.  iv,  187.     Boston,  1854. 
Pastor,  The.     (Anon.)      12°,  pp.  xii,  50.     New  Y'ork,  1821. 
Patch,  (J.) 

John  Patch  was  born  at  Ipswich,  Mass.,  in  1807,  and  graduated  at  Bowdoin  College  in 
1831.  For  a  time  he  was  a  resident  graduate  at  Harvard,  studying  German  under  Dr. 
Follen  and  reading  the  Greek  poets  under  Professor  Felton.  He  studied  law,  was  admit- 
ted to  practice  and  opened  an  office  in  Boston.  After  a  residence  of  a  year  or  two  in  Bos- 
ton he  removed  to  Beverly,  Mass.,  and  soon  after  to  Nantucket,  Mass.,  where  he  remained 
a  year.  The  Literary  Museum,  the  responsiblity  of  editing  and  publishing  which  he  took 
upon  himself,  did  not  prove  remunerative,  and  finding  himself  pecuniarily  embarrassed, 
with  the  hope  of  retrieving  liis  fortunes,  he  went  to  California  in  1849.  After  spending 
three  years  and  over  in  the  mining  district  he  took  up  his  residence  in  San  Francisco, 
where  lie  opened  an  office  and  practiced  his  profession  for  two  or  three  years,  and  then 
returned  to  his  native  place  which  became  his  permanent  home. 

—  The  Poet's  Offering.      12°,  pp.  xi,  372.     Boston,  1842. 


l\^'2  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

Patekson,  (S.  V.  R.  AND  AV.) 

Steplian  Van  Keusseliu'i-  iiiui  Williuin  ratci-soii,  twins  by  birtli,  were  born  at  Perth 
Ainboy,  May  :il,  1817.  Their  p;raiullatlier,  Williaiu  1'.,  tilled  high  and  important  civil  posi- 
tions :  was  the  first  United  States  Senator  for  New  Jersey,  was  Governor  of  the  State,  and 
was  appointed  by  ['resident  Washington,  Associate  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the 
United  States,  and  held  this  otfice  till  his  death  in  ISOG.  The  subjects  of  this  slcetch  grad. 
uated  at  Princeton  in  18;)u.  The  former  became  a  civil  engineer,  and  after  having  pur- 
sued his  profession  for  a  time  on  the  (Jenessee  Valley  Canal,  was  appointed  Surveyor 
General  of  the  Council  of  Proprietors  of  Kast  New  Jersey.  This  position  he  resigned,  but 
subseipiently  was  re-appointed  to  the  same  otHce,  holding  the  same  till  his  death  in  1872. 

William  Paterson  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  November,  1838.  Among  the  offices  of 
civil  trust  which  he  has  held  may  be  mentioned  the  Mayoralty  of  Perth  Amboy  in  1846, 
'56-CO,  '74-78,  Presidential  elector  in  18(54,  Judge  of  the  Appelate  Court  of  New  Jersey, 
having  been  appointed  in  18S'-.',  and  now  (1880)  in  office. 

—    (8.  y.  R.)      Hierosolyma  and  Milton's  Dream,  etc.      12°,  pp.    114. 

Princeton ,  1850. 

—  (S.  V.  R.  AND  William.)     Poems  of  Twin  Graduates  of  the  Col- 

lege of  New  Jersey.     8°,  pp.  V,  384.     Newark,  N.  J.,   1882. 

Presented  to  the  Library  of  the  University  to  be  placed  in  "The  Harris  Collection," 
by  Hon.  W.  I'aterson,  March  1,  1886. 

Patriot,  The.      (By  a  Mechanic    of    Charlestowai.     Anon.)      12°,    pp. 
vii,  24.      Charlestown,  1798. 

Patriots,  The,  of  North  America.     (Anon.)     8°,  pp.  47.     1775. 
Patten,  (G.  W.,  U.  S.  A.) 

George  W.  Patten  was  born  at  Newport,  R.  I.,  in  1808,  graduated  at  Brown  University 
in  1825,  and  at  West  Point  in  18.30.  He  served  in  the  Florida  and  Mexican  wars,  lost  his 
hand  at  Cerro  Gerdo,  April  18,  1847,  and  was  retired  from  the  service  in  1864. 

—  Episodes  of  the   Mexican   War.     Sq.   18°,   pp.  v,   43.     New  York, 

1878. 

—  Voices  of  the  Border.      12°,  pp.  361.     New  York,  1867. 

Patterson,  (A.  M.)      Onward:    A  Lay  of  the  West.     Sq.  16°,  pp.   28. 
New  York,  and  San  Francisco,  1869. 

Paulding,  (J.  K.  and  W.  I.) 

James  Kirke  Paulding's  ancestor  was  among  the  early  Dutch  settlers  of  the  State  of 
New  York,  his  name  being  Hendrick  Pauld\vick,  or,  as  sometimes  spelled  Heinrick 
Paulden,  which,  anglecised,  became  Henry  Pawling.  The  grandfather  of  James  settled  in 
Westcliester  county,  N.  Y.,  and  his  father  took  up  his  residence  in  Pleasant  Valley, 
Dutchess  county,  N.  Y.,  where  the  son  was  born,  August  22,  1779.  The  war  of  the  Revolu- 
tion brought  great  pecuniary  embarrassment  to  the  family,  which  was  reduced  to  great 
straits,  and  led  to  their  removal,  after  peace  was  declared,  to  the  old  home  in  Westchester. 
The  only  school  education  which  James  received  was  acquired  in  a  little  log  school  house 
two  miles  from  his  home.    In  early  manhood  he  went  to  New  Yord  and  resided  for  a  time 


AMERICAN    POETKY.  193 

Paulding,  (J.  K.  and  W.  I.)  —  Continued. 

witli  his  brother-in-law,  Mr.  William  Irving,  "  a  man  of  wit  and  genius,  whose  home  was 
the  familiar  resort  of  a  knot  of  young  men  of  a  similar  stamp,  who  were  members  of  the 
Calliopean  Society,  one  of  the  first  purely  literary  institutions  established  in  the  city." 
The  society  and  influence  of  the  men  with  whom  lie  was  thus  associated  was  in  itself  an 
education  to  young  Paulding.  He  was,  moreover,  brought  into  intimate  relations  with 
Washington  Irving,  the  brother  of  his  brother-in-law,  with  whom  he  made  his  first  literary 
venture  in  the  publication  of  the  famous  Salmagundi ;  or,  the  Whim- Whams  and  Opinions 
of  Launcelot  Langstaff  and  others,  the  first  number  of  which  appeared  January  24,  1807. 
It  had  a  brief  existence  of  only  one  year.  In  18H  he  was  appointed  Secretary  to  the  Board 
of  Navy  Commissioners,  and  subsequently  was  for  twelve  years  Navy  Agent  for  the  port 
of  New  York,  and  for  three  years,  1838-41,  was  Secretary  of  the  Navy.  During  all  this 
time  his  pen  was  busy  in  the  production  of  several  works  which  secured  popular  favor 
The  one  of  these  on  which  perhaps  his  fame  most  securely  rests  is  his  "  Dutchman's  Fire- 
side." At  the  close  of  his  public  service  he  took  up  his  residence  at  Hyde  Park,  Dutchess 
county,  N.  Y.,  where  he  died  April  0,  ISCO. 

—  American  Comedies.      12°,  pp.  iv,  295.     Philadelpliia,  1847. 

The  contents  of  this  volume  are:  The  Bucktails;  or,  Americans  in  England.  The 
Noble  Exile.  Madmen  All;  or.  The  Cure  of  Love.  Antipathies;  or.  The  Enthusiasts  by 
the  Ears.  "  The  Bucktails  "  was  written  by  the  father  soon  after  the  war  of  1812.  The  son, 
William  Irving  Paulding,  was  the  author  of  the  others. 

Payne,  (D.  A.)     The  Pleasures,  etc.      18°,  pp.  43.     Baltimore,  1850. 
Payne,  (J.  H.) 

John  Howard  Payne  was  born  in  the  city  of  New  York,  June  0,  1791  (instead  of  1792, 
as  the  Encyclopaedias,  etc.,  generally  give  the  date),  in  a  house  pulled  down  in  1832,  near 
the  junction  of  Pearl  and  Broad  streets.  He  spent  a  part  of  his  early  childhood  in  East 
Hampton,  L.  I.,  and  then  removed  to  Boston.  His  dramatic  tastes  were  developed  while 
he  was  a  mere  lad.  At  the  age  of  thirteen,  while  a  clerk  in  the  store  of  an  uncle  in  New 
York,  who  had  recently  died,  he  was  the  clandestine  editor  of  a  little  paper  bearing  the 
title,  The  Thespian  Mirror,  the  first  number  of  which  appeared  December  2S,  1805.  It 
ran  through  fourteen  numbers,  the  last  appearing  March  22,  180fi.  For  about  two  years  he 
was  a  student  in  Union  College,  Schenectady.  Family  reverses  compelled  him  to  abandon 
a  college  course  of  study.  He  first  appeared  on  the  stage  in  the  character  of  Young  Korval 
at  the  Old  Park  Theatre,  New  York,  February  24,  180?,  when  he  was  under  seventeen 
years  of  age.  A  brilliant  success,  reaching  on  through  several  years,  followed  his  profes- 
sional efforts  in  this  country  and  in  Great  Britain.  His  career  as  a  dramatic  author  com- 
menced with  his  writing  "Accusation,"  which  was  produced  for  the  first  time  at  the 
Drury  I>ane  Theatre,  February  1,  18 Hi. 

Various  accounts  have  been  given  of  the  circumstances  which  led  to  the  composition 
by  John  Howard  Payne  of  the  immortal  song,  "  Home,  Sweet  Home." 

The  following  is  the  story  as  related  by  his  biographer,  Gabriel  Harrison.  While  tem- 
porarily residing  in  Paris,  his  services  were  secured  by  Mr.  Charles  Kemble,  who  had  the 
management  of  the  Covcnt  Garden  Theatre.  Before  leaving  Paris  the  then  dramatist  sent 
to  his  employer  "  a  batch  of  manuscript  plays,  setting  the  price  at  two  hundred  and  fifty 
pounds  ui)on  the  whole."  One  of  these  plays  subsequently  was  produced  on  the  stage 
under  the  name  of  "Clarl."  Its  author  asked  and  received  for  it  from  Jlr.  Kemble,  fifty 
pounds.  The  plot  of  the  play  having  been  somewhat  changed  and  several  songs  and  duets 
introduced,  it  was  brought  out  as  an  opera  at  Covent  Garden  Theatre  "with  prodigious 
success."    The  music  was  composed  and  partly  founded  on  a  Sicilian  air,  by  Sir  Henry 


194  HARKIS    COLLECTION. 

rAVNK,    (J.   11.)—  C0)ltiini('(J. 

Bishop,  the  {lontleman  who  arrunj;ed  all  the  musif  for  Mr.  Payne's  pieces.  Mr.  Harrison 
eays  :  "  This  sonj;  has  had  a  more  nniversal  circulation  than  any  other  song  written  before 
or  since.  It  is  «  fact  that  upwards  of  one  hundred  thousand  copies  were  issued  by  its  pub- 
lisher in  London  in  less  than  one  year  after  its  publication.  The  profit  yielded  over  two 
thousand  guineas.    It  at  once  became  so  popular  that  it  was  licard  everywhere." 

That  Sir  Henry  liishop  did  not  wholly  compose  the  simple  touching  music  of  "  Home, 
Sweet  Home,"  appears  from  the  following  as  related  by  Payne  :  "  I  first  heard  the  air,"  he 
says,  "in  Italy.  One  beautiful  morning  as  I  was  strolling  along  amid  some  delightful 
scenery  my  attention  was  arrested  by  the  sweet  voice  of  a  peasant  girl  who  was  carrying 
a  basket  laden  with  flowers  and  vegetables.  This  plaintive  air  she  trilled  out  with  so 
nuieh  sweetness  and  simplicity  that  the  melody  at  once  caught  my  fancy.  I  accosted  her, 
and  after  a  few  moments  conversation  1  asked  for  the  name  of  the  song,  which  she  could 
not  give  me,  but  having  a  slight  knowledge  of  music  myself,  barely  enough  for  tlie  purpose, 
1  requested  her  to  repeat  the  air  which  she  did,  while  I  dotted  down  the  notes  as  best  I 
could.  It  was  this  air  that  suggested  the  words  of  '  Home,  Sweet  Home,'  both  of  which 
I  sent  to  Bishop  at  the  time  I  was  preparing  the  opera  of  Clari '  for  Mr.  Kemble.  Bishop 
happened  to  know  the  air  perfectly  well,  and  adapted  the  music  to  the  words." 

Mr.  Payne  returned  to  his  native  country  in  July,  18.32,  and  was  warmly  received  in 
several  cities  of  the  United  States.  It  was  his  purpose  to  publish  a  weekly  periodical  to 
be  issued  in  London,  its  contributors  to  be  both  English  and  American.  The  plan  did  not 
succeed  in  enlisting  sufficient  interest  to  warrant  its  being  carried  out.  On  the  23d  of 
August,  1842,  he  was  appointed  by  President  Tyler  Consul  at  Tunis,  and  remained  in  office 
until  a  change  of  administration  led  to  his  recall,  official  notice  of  the  same  being  received 
Xovember  20,  1845.  In  the  spring  of  1S5I,  having  been  reappointed  Consul,  he  returned  to 
Tunis,  where  he  died  April  9,  1852.  The  body  was  exhumed  January  5,  188.3,  sent  to 
America  at  the  expense  of  W.  W.  Corcoran,  Esq.,  of  Washington,  D.  C,  and  reinterred 
in  Oak  Hill  Cemetery,  Washington,  June  9,  1883. 

—  Accusation.      18°,  \)\:>.  vii,  76.     Boston,  1818. 

—  Adeline.     A  Melo-Drama.      16°,  pp.  41.     New  York,   1822. 

—  Algiers,  The  Fall  of.      18°,  pp.  47.     London,  no  date. 

—  Ali  Pacha  ;  or.    The    Signet    Ring.     A  Melo-Drama.      18°,  pp.  36. 

New  York,  1823. 

—  Same.      18°,  pp.  28.      London,  no  date. 

—  Brutus.     A  Tragedy  in  Five  Acts.      18°,  pp.  52.     London,  no  date. 

—  Same.     8°,  pp.  vi,  56.     London,  1819. 

—  Charles    the    Second  ;  or.  The  Merry  Monarch.     A  Comedy.      18°, 

pp.  45.      London,  no  date. 

—  Same.     Philadelphia,    1829. 

—  Clari  ;  or,  The  Maid  of  Milan.      18°,  pp.  40.     London,  no  date. 

The  original  of"  Home,  Sweet  Home,"  appeared  first  in  this  play,  which  was  brought 
out  as  an  opera,  in  Covent  Garden  Theatre,  in  the  spring  of  1823. 

—  Lisjungs   of  the  Muse  :    A    Selection    from   Juvenile  Poems,  chiefly 

written  at  and  before  the  age  of  sixteen.  "  He  lisp'd  in  numbers, 
for  the  numbers  came."  Printed  as  a  testimony  of  regard  from  the 
author  to  his  personal  friends.     8°,  pp.  viii,  30.      London,  1815. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  195 

Payxe,  (J.  H.)  —  Continued. 

The  following  was  written  on  the  short  title-page  in  the  handwriting  of  the  author  : 
"  Isaac  S.  Clason,  Esq.,  fi'om  his  friend,  .lohn  Howard  Payne,  London,  Sept.  2,  1820." 
Written  in  pencil  under  the  title  reterred  to  are  the  tigures,  $6.00. 

Another  copy  of  these  Juvenile  Poems  is  published  in  Harrison's  Memoirs  of  Payne, 
pp.  •299-.314. 

—  Love  in  Humble  Life.     A  Comedy.      18°,  pp,  31.      London,  no  date. 

—  Richelieu.     A  Dramatic  Tragedy.      18°,  pp.  79.     New  York,  1826. 

—  The  Lancers.      18°,  p*p.  27.     London,  no  date. 

—  Therese.     The  Orphan  of  Geneva.      18°,  pp.  46.      London,  no  date. 

—  The   Two  Galley  Slaves.     A   Melo-Drama.      18°,  pp.  o3.     London, 

no  date. 

The  jjlacing  upon  the  pages  of  this  Catalogue  the  titles  of  so  many  plays,  which  were 
written  by  I'ayne,  renders  it  not  out  of  place  to  allude  to  the  very  great  interest  whicli  Mr. 
Harris  tooli  in  dramatic  literature.  Almost  all  the  dramatic  works  in  the  "  Collection  " 
were  procured  by  him.  The  tastes  of  Judge  Greene  do  not  seem  to  have  been  in  that  direc- 
tion. Of  the  numerous  productions  of  Payne,  for  instance,  only  one,  his  "  Brutus,"  is  re- 
ferred to  in  the  Bangs,  Jlerwin  &  Co. 's  Catalogue.  A  cursory  glance  at  tliis  Catalogue  will 
show  that  the  dramatic  volumes  would,  by  themsleves,  form  no  inconsiderable  part  of  a 
library.  The  following  authors  are  represented,  and  some  of  them  largely  so,  in  the  "  Col- 
lection :"  G.  H.  Boker,  J.  B.  Booth,  C.  T.  Brooks,  D.  P.  Brown,  C.  H.  Calvert,  C.  J.  Can- 
non, M.  Carey.  W.  W.  Clapp,  Mary  L.  Cobb,  H.  J.  Conway,  J.  Crowne,  W.  Dunlap  (between 
twenty  and  thirty  plays),  F.A.  Kemble,  H.  W.Longfellow,  Mrs.  A.  C.  Mo  watt,  H.  Paul,  J. 
H.  Payne,  C.  Smith,  C.  Stearns,  C.  M.  AValcot,  N.  P.  Willis.  These  are  a  few  of  the  wri- 
ters of  plays  whose  works  are  found  in  the  "  Harris  Collection."  The  four  volumes  of 
Crowne's  works,  as  they  appear  in  a  double  form,  tlie  Philadelphia  Edition  compiled  by 
Burton,  and  the  Dramatists  of  the  Restoration,  are  worthy  of  special  note.  More  particu- 
lar reference  to  these  will  be  found  under  their  own  titles  in  the  Catalogue.  The  large 
collection  of  dramatic  worksthus  made  by  Jlr.  Harris  make  this  partof  the  library  of  poe- 
try of  special  value  to  lovers  of  the  drama,  and  of  great  worth  to  the  curious  who  may 
wish  to  inform  themselves  about  American  dramatic  literature. 

Peace,  Di.^logue  on.  (Anon.)  Nassau  Hall,  Commencement,  Septem- 
ber 28,  1763.     Philadelphia,  1763. 

Pearce,  (G.  W.)  a  Poem  recited  before  the  Chester  county.  Pa.,  Cab- 
inet of  Natural  Science,  December  4,  1841.  8°,  pp.  11.  Phila- 
delphia, 1841. 

Peace,  The  Trilmph  of,  etc.  (Anon.)  12°,  pp.  96,  New  York, 
1840. 

Peck,  (J.) 

John  Peck  was  born  at  Stanford,  N.  Y.,  in  1780,  and  was  well  known  in  the  State  of 
New  York  as  an  able  minister  of  the  Baptist  denomination.    He  died  November  15,  1849. 

—  A  Descant  on  Univer.salism.     8°,  pp.  21.     New  Haven,  1822. 
28 


196  IIAKIJIS    COLLECTION. 

PkCK,   (J.) —  Cautlinird. 

—  A  Short  Poem,  etc.      3tl  Edition.      1(>°,  pp.  2o.     No  place,  1813. 

—  The  Spirit  of  Methodism.      18°,  pp.  1)4.     New  York,  1831. 

—  Poems  on  tlie  Last  Judgment  and  on   Deatli.      12°,  pp.  34.      Palmer, 

1817. 

Peet,  (L.  R.)     Experiences  and  Comments  of  a  Fool  About  Town.     Sq. 
18°,  pp.  18.      Baltimore,  1876. 

Feiuce,  (T.) 

Tliomas  Peirce  was  born  in  Chester  Co.,  Penn.,  August  4,  1786,  and,  in  early  life,  was 
farmer,  mechanic  and  school  teacher.  In  1813  lie  went  to  Cincinnati,  engaged  in  mercan- 
tile pursuits  and  was  successful.  Ills  literary  tastes  were  of  the  most  marked  character, 
and  he  did  much  to  elevate  the  standard  of  art  and  literature  in  his  adopted  home..  He 
died  in  1S50. 

—  The  Odes  of  Horace  in  Cincinnati.      18°,  pp.  117.      Cincinnati,  1822. 
Peiuson,  (Mks.  Lydia  J.) 

Lydia  J.  Wheeler  was  born  at  Jliddletown,  Conn.,  and  resided  for  many  years  in  Lib- 
erty, Tioga  Co.,  where  her  husband,  Mr.  Peirson,  had  purchased  a  tract  of  land.  In  the 
solitude  of  a  liome  live  miles  from  any  other  habitation,  and  twenty  from  any  village, 
she  beguiled  her  lonely  hours  with  her  pen,  writing  for  The  Xeir  Yorker,  The  Southern 
Literary  Messenger,  etc. 

—  Forest  Minstrel.     12°,  pp.  xi,  204.     Philadelphia,  1846. 

Pelt,  (D.  V.)     Tlie   Hollanders  in  Nova  Zembla,  1596-1.597.      12°,  pp. 
xvii,  120.     New  York,  1884. 

An  Arctic  Poem,  translated  from  the  Dutch  of  Hendrick  Tollens. 

Pennsylvama  Geougics.     No  title  page.      18°,  pp.  60. 

Pepper,  (G.)     Kathleen  O'Neil.     A  Melo-Drama.     A  Picture  of  Feudal 
Times  in  Ireland.      18°,  pp.  vii,  84.      Philadelphia,  1832. 

Pepper,  (H.)     Juvenile  Essays.     8°,  pp.  75.     Philadelphia,  no  date. 

Pekcival,  (J.  G.) 

James  Gates  Percival  was  born  at  Kensington,  Conn.,  September  15,  1795,  and  gradu- 
ated at  Y'ale  in  1SI5  with  the  honors  of  his  class.  He  published  his  "Prometheus"  in 
1820,  a  poetical  production  which  was  favorably  received.  He  chose  for  his  profession 
that  of  his  father,  medicine,  receiving  his  degree  in  1820,  and  commencing  practice  in 
Charleston,  S.  C.  Here  he  published  his  "  Clio,"  mostly  of  verse.  In  1824  he  was 
appointed  Assistant  Surgeon  in  the  army,  and  Professor  of  Chemistry  at  West  Point, 
which  position  he  held  but  a  short  time,  and  then  took  up  his  residence  in  Boston,  where 
he  was  engaged  in  the  recruiting  service.  In  1827  he  removed  to  New  Haven,  Conn., 
and  for  two  years  assisted  in  preparing  for  the  press  the  first  Quarto  Edition  of  Web- 
ster's Dictionary.  His  next  literary  work  of  special  note  was  a  translation  of  Malte 
Brun's  Geograi)hy.    He  perl'ormed  excellent  service  as  mineralogist  and  geologist  in  both 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  197 


'Percival,  (J.  G.)  —  Continued. 

Connecticut  and  Wisconsin,  reports  of  his  labors  in  both  these  States  being  made  by  liim. 
He  was  distinguislied  for  liis  linguistic  attainments.  A  great  difference  of  opinion  prevails 
as  to  his  merits  as  a  poet.  The  writer  of  the  sketch  of  him  prepared  for  "  Johnson's  New 
Cyclopedia,"  says  "  his  poetry,  though  not  without  conspicuous  merits,  is  nearly  all  crude 
and  half  written,  and  it  has  consequently  been  forgotten."  In  the  "North  American 
Review,"  January,  1822,  a  critic,  said  to  be  Edward  Everett,  in  reviewing  the  volume  of 
"Pereival's  Poems"  published  in  1820,  and  containing  his  "  Prometlieus,"  remarks: 
"  These  poems  appear  to  contain  decided  indications  of  genuine  poetical  talent.  This  lit- 
tle volume  contains  the  marks  of  an  inspiration  more  lofty  and  genuine  than  any  similar 
collection  of  fugitive  pieces  which  has  come  to  our  notice  from  any  native  bard."  There 
are,  however,  some  serious  drawbacks,  which  he  proceeds  to  point  out.  The  poem  deliv- 
ered before  the  Yale  Phi  Beta  Kappa  in  1825  is  noticed  in  an  article  also  in  the  "North 
American  Review  "  for  April,  1826,  The  criticism  on  the  production,  as  a  whole,  is  very 
severe,  although  the  writer  warmly  commends  isolated  passages.  In  the  July,  1860,  No. 
of  this  same  Review,  is  still  another  notice  of"  Pereival's  Poems,"  called  out  by  the  publi- 
cation of  the  two  volumes  of  his  books  published  in  the  "  Blue  and  Gold  Series  "  of  Tick- 
nor  &  Fields,  1859.  It  is  far  more  candid  and  favorable  'ban  either  of  the  others  referred 
to.    It  will  repay  perusal. 

—  Clio.     12°,  pp.  203.     New  York,  1827. 

—  Poems.     18°,  pp.  346.     New  Haven,  1851. 

__  Same.     2  vols.     18°,   pp.  li,  402-517.       Boston,   1859.     Blue  and 
Gold  Series. 

—  Yale.     Phi   Beta   Kappa    Poem,   September  13,  1825.     8°,  pp.  40. 

Boston,  1826. 

Percy,  (Florence,)  the  nom.  de  plume  of  Mrs.  E.  Akers.     Forest  Buds 
from  the  Woods  of  Maine.      12°,  pp.  viii,  207.     Boston,  1856. 

—  Same.      18°,  pp.  251.     Boston,  1866       Blue  and  Gold  Series. 

That  the  poems  of  Mrs.  Akers  were  regarded  as  worthy  a  place  in  the  carefully  selected 
volumes  which  make  up  the  "  Blue  and  Gold  "  Series  of  Ticknor  &  Fields,  is  a  sufficient 
endorsement  of  their  general  excellence.  The  compiler  of  that  series  would  not  have 
placed  them  in  that  series  along  with  the  productions  of  some  of  the  best  of  American 
poets  had  he  not  deemed  them  worthy  of  such  a  place. 

Perkins,  (Eliza.) 

She  was  born  in  New  York,  January  27,  1801,  and  died  in  1S20. 

—  Poems,  etc.     12°,  pp.  96.     New  York,  1823. 

Perrin,  (W.)      Hebrew  Canticles.      18°,  pp.  126.     Philadelphia,  1820. 

Sixteen  pages  of  this  volume  are  devoted  to  "  Preliminary  Observations  on  the  Song 
of  Solomon,"  in  which  the  writer  dwells  at  some  length  on  the  arrangement  of  its  parts, 
its  anticiuity,  its  authenticity,  its  nature  and  design.  Pages  17-5-3  contain  an  English 
translation  of  the  Song.  Pages  57-78  contain  a  translation  of  the  "  Lamentations  of  Jere- 
miah." Pages  81-10:5  contain  a  translation  of  all  the  other  "  Songs,"  so  called,  of  thd  Old 
and  New  Testaments. 


198  IIAKKIS    COLI.EOTION. 

Pekkv,  (Nora.)      After  thr  liall.  and  other  Toems.     Si[.  \C>°.  pp.  vi,  192. 
Boston,  187;'). 

—  Her  Lover's  Friend,  ote.      12°.  pp.  183'.     Boston,  1880. 

Perky,  (T.)      Then  and  Now.      A  Poem   delivered    at  New  Ipswich,  N. 
II.      8°,  pp.  40.      New  York,  ISC,  1. 

Pkuseveranck,   etc.      (Anon.)      Peply  to   tlie   Rev.  John   Wesley.      An 
imperfect  copy,  beginning  with  page  11.      8°,  pp.  G"). 

Peter,  (JNIr..,  British  Consnl,  Philadi'l[)hia.)      Leonore.     A  Romance  from 
the  German  of  Biirger.      18°,  pp.  15.      No  place,  no  date. 

Peterson,    (H.)      Poems,    including    '•'■  Modern    Jol)."     Second    Series. 
12°,  pp.  227.     Philadelphia,  183-3. 

Peters,    (G.  W.)     Poem.      Centennial.    Providence,   July  4,    187G.      8°, 

pp.  13.     Providence,  1876. 
Pettis,  (S.)     Boston   and  its   Envii'ons,  as   seen  from  the  Cupola  of  ^le 

State  House.      12°,  pp.  47.     Boston,  1832. 

Phantasmagoria,    The.      (Anon.)      12°,   pp.    12.     New  York,   date  in 

pencil,  1831. 
Phantom  Barge,  etc.     (Anon.)      18°,  pp.  171.     Philadelphia,  1822. 

Phelps,    (E.)      Modern    Benevolence.      A    Satire,      8°,   pp.    37.     New 

York,  1860. 
Pheli'.j,  (Elizabeth  Stuart.) 

Miss  Phelp-,  the  daughter  of  Rev.  Dr.  Austin  Plielps,  was  born  at  Boston,  August  31 , 
1844.  Her  mother  was  Elizabetli,  daughter  of  Moses  Stuart,  of  Andover,  who  was  the 
author  of  several  moral  and  religious  tales,  which,  in  their  day,  were  very  popular.  Miss 
Phelps  is  the  author  of  "  Gates  Ajar,"  which  has  had  an  extensive  circulation.  Other 
productions  of  her  pen  are  well  known. 

—  Songs  of  the  Silent  World,  etc.      12°,  pp.  155.     Boston,  1885. 
Phelps,  (Mrs.  A.  C.) 

Adaliza  Cutter  was  born  in  JattVey,  N.  H.,  in  1823,  became  the  wife  of  Gurley  A. 
Phelps,  M.  D.,  and  died  June  3,  1852. 

—  The  Life  of  Christ,  etc.      12°,  pp.  286.     Boston,  1852. 
Phelps,  (S.  D.) 

.Sylvanus  Dryden  Phelps  was  born  at  Suffleld,  Conn.,  1816,  graduated  at  Brown  Uni- 
versity in  1844,  and  was  pastor  of  the  First  Baptist  Church,  New  Haven,  1846-63.  Subse- 
qncntly  lie  became  pastor  of  the  .Jefferson  Street  Church,  Providence,  R.  I.,  and  after 
serving  this  church  for  a  time  he  became  editor  of  The  Christian  Secretary,  Hartford,  of 
which  he  now  (1886)  has  charge. 


AMERICAN    POETKY.  199 

Phelps,  (S.  D.)  —  Continued. 

—  A  Song  of  Thanksgiving.     A  Sei-mon  in  Rhyme.     Delivered  Novem- 

ber 18.  1869.     8°,  pp.  16.     New  Haven,  1870. 

Phelps,    (S.   M.)      Triumplis   of  Divine    Grace.      12°,  pp.   132.     New 

York,  1835. 
Phi  Bp:ta  Kappa  Poem.     Harvard   Commencement,   August   29,   1811. 

(By  a  Brother.)      Salem,  Mass.,  1811. 

The  author  was  Jacob  Bigelow,  5L  D. 

Philadelphla.  Book,  The.     12°,  pp.  380.     Philadelphia,  1836. 

Poetical  effusions  in  the  volume. 

Philadelphiad,  The.      12°,  pp.  48.     An  imperfect  cojjy. 
Phillips,  (H.,  Jk.) 

Henry  Pliillips,  Jr.,  an  American  lawyer,  of  I'liiladelphia,  much  interested  in  numis' 
matics. 

—  Poems  translated  from  the  Spanish  and  German.      8°,  pp.  76.      Phil- 

adelphia, 1878. 
One  hundred  copies  printed,  exclusively  for  private  circulation. 

Phillips,    (J.   B.)      Camillus.     A  Tragedy.     18°,  pp.  59.     New  York, 

1833. 
Phillips,  (W.)      Alexander  the  Great;  or,  The   Learned  Camel.      18°, 

pp.  23.     New  York,  no  date. 
Piatt,  (J.  J.,)  and  Howells,  (W.  D.) 

John  Jamei*  Piatt  was  born  at  Milton,  Ind.,  March  1,  1S35,  educated  at  Kenyon  Col- 
lege,  and  has  published  many  pieces  of  marked  poetic  merit.  He  was  a  contributor  to 
the  "Atlantic  Monthly." 

—  Poems  of  Two  Friends.      12°,  pp.  viii,  132,      Columbus,  1860. 

—  Poems  in  Sunshine  and  Firelight.      12°,  pp.  127.      Cincinnati,  1866. 

Piatt,  (Mrs.  S.  M.  B.) 

Sarah  Morgan  Bryan,  the  wife  of  J.  J.  Piatt,  was  born  at  Lexington,  Ky.,  in  1835,  was 
educated  at  Newcastle,  Ky.,  and  lived  in  Cincinnati,  1868,  et  seq. 

—  A  Woman's  Poems.      12°,  pp.  127.     Boston,  1871. 

—  (.1.   J.   AND   S.  M.   B.)     The   Nests   in  Washington,  etc.      12°,  pp. 

150.     New  York  and  London,  1864. 

Pickering,  (H.) 

Henry  Pickering,  the  third  son  of  Colonel  Timothy  Pickering,  was  born  at  Newburgh, 
N.  Y.,  October  8,  1781,  in  what  was  the  lieadquarters  of  General  Washington,  the  famous 
Hasbrouck  mansion.    At  the  time  of  his  birth  his  father  was  Quartermaster-General  of 


200  HAKKIS    COLLECTION. 

Pickering.  (II.)  —  Cohdnued. 

tlie  Americiin  army.  At  the  age  of  twenty  lu'  rcnioved  to  Massachusetts,  and  subseiiuently 
became  a  merchant  in  Salem,  and  acquired  a  fortune,  wliicli  in  large  measure  he  lost, 
and  in  ltJ25  removed  to  the  city  of  New  York,  wliere,  and  in  Uondout  and  otlier  places  on 
the  banks  of  the  Hudson,  he  resided  tlie  remainder  of  his  life.  He  died  in  New  York, 
May  8.  IS.-il. 

"  The  writings  of  Pickering,"  says  Duycklnck,  "  take  occasionally  a  sombre  tint  from 
the  circumstances  which  shaded  the  later  years  of  his  life,  although  his  natural  tempera- 
ment was  cheerful.  He  was  a  lover  of  the  beautiful  as  well  in  art  as  in  nature,  and  he 
numbered  among  his  friends  the  most  eminent  poets  and  artists  of  our  country."  The  fol- 
lowing is  found  in  a  graceful  tribute  which  was  paid  to  his  memory  in  the  Salem  Gazette 
in  May,  1838:  "  With  a  highly  cultivated  and  tasteful  mind  he  imparteil  jjleasant  instruc- 
tion to  all  who  held  intercourse  with  him,  while  liis  unobtrusive  manners  silently  forced 
themselves  on  the  affections  and  won  the  hearts  of  all  who  enjoyed  liis  society." 

—  Athens,  and  other  Poems.     8°,  pp.  84.     Salem,  1824. 

This  poem  was  suggested  by  the  writer's  seeing  a  panorama  of  Athens,  painted  by 
Messrs.  Barker  &  Burford,  of  London,  and  after  "having  been  the  object  of  admiration  in 
England  "  for  a  year,  was  purchased  by  Theodore  Lyman,  with  the  intention  of  present- 
ing it  to  Harvard  University.  "  It  will  readily  be  perceived,"  says  Mr.  Pickering,  "that 
my  little  performance  is  a  mere  panoramic  sketch,  not  a  finished  picture;  which,  indeed,  I 
should  in  vain  have  attempted.  Still  less  can  I  flatter  myself  that  I  have  been  able  to 
identify  my  own  feelings  with  those  of  the  fortunate  man  who  lias  actually  traced  the 
banks  of  the  Illissus  and  its  sister  stream,  or  who  has  knelt  within  the  sacred  precincts  of 
the  Parthenon." 

In  the  notes,  which  occupy  pp.  69-S4,  the  author  has  brought  together  many  interesting 
facts  to  explain  and  illustrate  his  text.  In  a  note  on  the  Parthenon,  he  gives  expression 
to  a  hope  which,  although  more  than  sixty  years  have  passed  away  since  it  was  uttered, 
has  not  yet  been  realized,  and  it  is  doubtful  if  it  ever  will  be.  "  If  the  Greeks,  in  spite  of 
the  frowns  of  power  and  the  apathy  of  mankind,  should  be  able  to  achieve  their  inde- 
pendence " —  (that  hypothesis  has  become  fact)  — "one  of  the  early  acts  of  their  govern- 
ment should  be  to  decree  the  restoration  of  the  Parthenon.  I  do  not  mean  that  they 
should  begin  to  labor  upon  it  in  that  state  of  exhaustion  in  which  they  must  be  left  after 
their  sanguinary  but  glorious  struggle;  yet  I  should  hope  that  tlie  project  would  be  kept 
Steadily  in  view.  It  is  to  be  presumed,  that  in  this  event,  the  British  Parliament  would 
send  back  the  sculptures  of  Phidias,  and  that  the  King  of  France  would  follow  the  laud- 
able example.  Every  bloc/c  should  be  replaced.  The  inscription  (as  translated)  may  then 
read  thus : 

ERECTKD     BY     PEKICLES 

DEFACED    AND    VIOLATED     BY     THK     BARBAIilANS 

RESTOREl> 

BY     THE    PEOPLE     OF     GREECE. 

If  the  compiler  may  venture  to  refer  to  his  own  feelings,  he  would  say  that  some 
years  since,  on  returning  from  a  visit  to  Athens,  as  he  was  wandering  through  the  British 
Museum  he  saw  one  of  the  Caryatides  which  had  been  taken  from  its  place  on  the  Acrop- 
olis and  transported  to  England.  He  could  not  help  saying  to  himself :  "This  statue  has 
no  right  to  be  here;  it  ought  to  be  sent  back  to  Athens  and  set  up  in  the  place  which  for 
so  many  centuries  it  occupied."  He  remembers  when  sitting  on  a  prostrate  column  of  the 
famous  Temple  of  .lupiter,  a  little  beyond  the  eastern  base  of  the  Acropolis,  and  not  far 
from  the  Arch  of  Hadrian,  that  he  was  told  that  an  enterprising  Yankee  had  <iuite  seriously 
thought  of  trying  to  buy  that  colunni  and  transporting  it  to  New  York! 

In  one  of  his  notes  Pickering  says:  "  A  Frenchman,  some  years  since,  conceived  the 
thought  of  transporting  the  Temple  of  Theseus  to  France;  what  infatuation!    Yet  an  idea 


AMElilCAX    POETRY.  201 

PiCKKKiNG,  (H.)  —  Continued. 

of  tliis  kind  was  not  new.  We  are  told  tliat  an  Earl  of  Bristol,  in  the  last  cqntiiry  ' 
seriously  meditated  the  removal  of  the  beautiful  little  Temple  of  the  Sybil  at  Tivoli  in  order 
that  lie  might  place  it  in  his  own  park !  He  was  only  restrained  from  committing  the 
outrage  by  an  absolute  prohibition  of  His  Holiness."  It  is  thus  that  the  poet  apostro- 
phises tlie  sacreligious  Frenchman : 

"  Thou  phrensied  Gaul !    C'ould'st  thou  the  tliought  endure 
To  wrest  this  dear  relict  from  tlie  soil, 
To  plant  it  impious  on  a  foreign  strand? 
Shade  of  immortal  Theseus,  arise! 
In  dreadful  majesty  appear  once  more 
And  palsy  with  benumbing  fear  what  hand 
Shall  sacreligious  dare  attempt  the  deed!  " 

—  Paestum.     Ruins  of.      (Anon.)     4°,  pp.  128.      Salem,  Mass.,  1822. 

—  Poems.     8°,  pp.  84.     Boston,  1830. 

An  edition  of  only  twenty-five  copies  was  printed  for  private  circulation.  Among  the 
beautiful  "  gems  "  of  this  very  rare  volume  is  a  poem  of  great  sweetness,  "  Tlie  Death  of 
My  Motlier."    Pickering  was  a  most  aftectionate  son. 

—  The  Buckwheat  Cake.     8°,  pp.  14.     Boston,  1831. 

This  charming  little  poem  first  appeared  in  the  New  York  Evening  Post.  The  volume 
in  its  present  form  is  exceedingly  rare. 

PiOTUF.E  Poems.      (Mai-ian  Douglas.)      Lg.  12°,  pp.  104.     Boston,  1872. 

Pierce,  (E.  J.)      A  Poem.      18°,  pp.  36.     No  place,  no  date. 

Pierce,  (W.  L.)     The  Year.     A  Poem  in  Three  Cantos.      18°,  pp.  191. 
New  Y-ork,  1813. 

PlERPONT,    (J.) 

John  Picrpont  was  born  at  Litchfield,  Conn.,  April  6,  1785,  graduated  at  Yale  College 
in  1804,  having  among  his  classmates  Hon.  John  C.  Calhoun,  Bishop  C.  E.  Gadsden,  of 
South  Carolina,  President  Bennet  Tyler,  of  Dartmouth  College,  and  Rev.  Drs.  E.  Stiles 
Ely,  T.  C.  Lansing,  .John  Jlarsli  and  A.  McEwen.  He  was  admitted  to  the  practice  of  law 
in  1812,  and  resided  for  a  time  in  Newburyport,  Mass.  Then  he  removed  to  Boston,  and 
afterwards  to  Baltimore,  where  he  was  in  business  with  John  Neal,  as  his  partner.  Hav- 
ing studied  theology  he  was  ordained  as  a  Unitarian  minister  in  181SI.  and  was  pastor  of 
the  Mollis  Street  Church,  Boston,  1819-15,  then  of  the  church  in  Medford,  Mass,  1840-50. 
He  was  in  the  Treasury  Department,  Washington,  1861-04,  and  died  at  Medford,  August 
27,  1860. 

—  Airs  of  Palestine.      8°,  pp.  xxvi,  oG.      Baltimore,  1816. 

—  Same.      2d  Edition.      18°,  pp.  58.      Boston,  1817. 

—  Same.      12°,  pp.  334.      Boston,  1840. 

—  Anti-Slavery  Poems.      18°,  pp.  64.     Boston,  1843. 

—  Lays  for  the  Sabbath.     A  Collection  of  Religious  Poetry.      12°,  pp. 

288.      Boston,  1850. 


202  iiAi;i;i,s  collection. 

PiEUPONT,  (J.) —  Contiimed. 

—  Sabbath  Eecreatioiis.      1-2°,  pp.  288.     Boston,  18:39. 

—  The  Pilgrims  of  Plymouth.      8°,  pp.  30.      Boston,  18")6. 

—  The  Portrait.     A  Poem  delivered  before  the  Washington  Benevolent 

Society  of  Newburyport,  October  27,  1812.     8°,  pp.  36.     Boston, 
1812. 

PlETAS  ET  CoNGRATULATIO  COLLEGII  CaNTABRIGIENSIS  APUD  NoV AN- 
GLOS. Bostoni,  Massachuscttensium  :  Typis  J.  Green  &  J.  Bus- 
sell^  1761.     4°,  pp.  Dedication  to  the  King,  xiv.     Text  106. 

This  volume  in  Latin,  Greek  and  Englisli,  and  contaiuinfi;  thirty-one  pieces,  exclusive 
of  tlie  "  dedication  to  the  King,"  was  designed  to  celebrate  the  death  of  George  II.  and  the 
accession  of  George  III.  The  "dedication"  was  composed  by  Governor  Bernard  or 
Lieutenant  Governor  Hutchinson.  The  poems  were  prepared  in  response  to  an  invitation 
sent  to  Harvard  College,  for  which  prizes  were  offered.  "  Under  these  circumstances,"  as 
Duyckinck  well  says  ("Cyclopaedia  American  Literature,"  vol.  i,  p.  11,),  "  the  inevitable 
condition  of  such  a  work  is  eulogy  ;  so  the  departing  guest  is  sped,  and  the  coming  wel- 
comed in  the  most  rapturous  figments  of  poetry.  George  II  is  elevated  to  the  apotheosis 
in  the  skies,  in  the  long  echoing  wave  of  the  exulting  hexameter,  while  the  ebbing  flood 
of  feeling  at  so  mournful  an  exaltation  is  couched  in  the  subdued  expression  of  the  sink- 
ing pentameter.  All  nature  is  called  upon  to  weep,  and  again  to  rejoice;  all  hearts  to 
bleed,  and  again  to  live  as  one  royal  monarch  ascends  the  skies  and  another  the  throne." 

Four  pages  of  the  "  Jlonthly  Review  "  [London],  for  July,  170.3,  are  devoted  to'a  notice 
of  this  volume.  The  writer  says:  "A  poetical  offering  from  a  college  in  America,  and  the 
first  of  the  kind  that  a  King  of  Great  Britain  has  received  trom  his  Colonies,  must  be 
esteemed  a  curiosity."  He  then  proceeds  to  make  quotations,  speaking  of  the  '  address  ' 
to  the  King  as  '  very  judiciously  and  elegantly  drawn  up.'"  The  following  are  the  con- 
cluding words  of  this  notice:  "  It  must  be  acknowledged  that  this  Xew  England  Collec- 
tion, like  other  public  offerings  of  the  same  kind,  contains  some  indifferent  performances; 
but  these,  though  they  cannot  be  well  excused  when  they  come  from  ancient  and  estab- 
lislicd  seats  of  learning,  may  at  least  be  connived  at  here;  and  what  we  could  not  endure 
from  an  illustrious  University,  we  can  pardon  in  an  infant  Seminary."  The  "  infant  Sem- 
inary," of  which  this  writer  so  patronizingly  speaks,  had,  when  he  wrote'the  above,  been 
in  existence  one  hundred  and  twenty-seven  years! 

(See  Duyckinck,  as  above;  also  "  Monthly  Anthology,"  June,  1809,  an  article  by  A.  H. 
Everett;  also,  .lustin  Winsor's"  Biographical  Contributions,"  No.  4. 

Pike,  (A.) 

Albert  Pike  was  born  at  Boston,  December  29,  1S09,  Ills  father  being  a  poor  shoe- 
maker. He  studied  for  a  time  at  Harvard  College,  which,  in  1859,  conferred  on  him  the 
degree  of  A.  M.  He  wmit  to  Santa  Fe  in  1831,  travelling  most  of  the  way  on  foot;  was  a 
journalist  at  Little  Rock,  Ark.,  1834-36;  subsequently  practiced  law;  was  in  the  Mexican 
war,  sided  with  the  South  in  the  Civil  War,  being  a  Brigadier-General ;  editor  of  the 
Memphis  Appeal,  1807-68,  and  is  the  author  of  Law  Reports,  etc.  For  years  he  lias  been 
the  head  of  the  Ancient  Accepted  Masons  of  the  South. 

—  Nugae.      12°,  pp.  393.     PhiUulelphia,  1854. 

—  Prose  Sketches  and  Poems.      12°,  pp.  viii,  200.     Boston,  1834. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  203 

Pike,  (M.  S.)     Creola.     8°,  pp.  53.     Boston,  1850. 

PiLSBURY,   (A.)      Sacred    Songster.     5th   Edition.     18°,  pp.   252.     Col- 
umbia, S.  C,  1825. 
PiMPELLY,  (Mary  H.)     Poems.     8°,  pp.  76.     New  York,  1852. 

Pindar,  Peter.     (Anon.)     Letters  to  a  Friend  Relative  to  the  Sunday 
Mail.      18%  pp.  36.     New  York,  1830. 

PiNKNEY,   (E.   C.) 

Edward  Coate  Pinkney,  son  of  the  distinguished  lawyer  and  diplomatist,  the  Hon. 
William  Pinkney,  of  Maryland,  was  bom  in  London,  October,  1802,  his  father  at  the  time 
being  United  States  Minister  to  the  Court  of  St.  James.  Returning  to  this  country  with 
his  parents  in  1811,  he  pursued  his  studies  in  St.  Mary's  College,  Baltimore,  and  in  1816 
became  a  midshipman  in  the  navy.  On  the  decease  of  his  father  in  1822,  he  threw  up  his 
commission,  and  devoted  himself  for  a  time  to  the  practice  of  law  and  to  literary  pursuits. 
The  small  volume  of  poems  referred  to  below,  being  a  copy  of  the  Second  Edition,  is  "suf- 
ficiently large  to  preserve  his  memory  with  all  generous  appreciators  of  true  poetry  as  a 
writer  of  exquisite  taste  and  sensibility."  William  Leggett  speaks  of  his  shorter  poems 
as  "  rich  in  beauties  of  a  peculiar  nature,  and  not  surpassed  by  productions  of  a  similar 
character  in  the  English  language."  His  critic  had  a  special  admiration  for  the  poem  "  On 
Italy."    Pinkney  died  in  Baltimore,  April  11,  1828. 

—  Miscellaneous  Poems  of.     The  Rococo,  No.  2.     New  MiiTor  Extra. 

4°,  pp.  16.     New  York,  1844. 

—  Poems.     2d  Edition.      18°,  pp.  72.     Baltimore,  1838. 

Pinkney,  (W.,  D.  D.) 

A  nephew  of  Hon.  William  Pinkney. 

—  Ernest   Murray;  or,  A  Dream  of  Life.     12°,  pp.  96.     New  York, 

1869. 

PiNDLE,    (B.   T.)       Miscellaneous  Poems.       18°,  pp.  199.       Baltimore, 

1851. 
Pise,  (C.  C,  D.  D.) 

Charles  Constantine  Pise,  D.  D.,  the  son  of  an  Italian  by  an  American  mother,  was 
born  at  Annapolis,  Md.,  in  1802.  He  received  his  collegiate  education  at  Georgetown,  D. 
C.  After  graduation  he  went  to  Rome  to  complete  his  studies,  where  he  was  knighted 
and  had  conferred  on  him  the  doctor's  degree.  Returning  to  the  United  States,  he  was, 
for  a  time,  an  instructor  in  the  college  at  Emmittsburg,  Md.  Having  received  ordination 
as  a  Priest  in  the  Roman  Catholic  Church,  he  dischai-ged  his  clerical  functions  in  Mary- 
land and  the  District  of  Columbia,  also  in  the  cities  of  New  Y'ork  and  Brooklyn.  Dr.  Pise 
was  the  author  of  a  "  Church  History,"  5  vols.,  1830;  wrote  much  in  the  form  of  poetry, 
tales,  etc.,  and  was  regarded  as  one  of  the  ablest  clergymen  of  his  church  in  America. 
He  died  in  Brooklyn,  May  20,  ISOO. 

—  The   Pleasures  of  Religion,  etc.       18°,   pp.  vi,  251.      Philadelphia, 

1833. 
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204  IIAKUIS    COLLECTION. 

Plattsbiro,  Battle   of.     In   Three   Cantos.     By  an   American  Youth. 

(Anon.)      16°,  pp.  46.     Montpclicr,  1819. 

This  volume  was  "  entered  "  by  John  Woodworth,  author  of  "  Keminlscences  of  Troy 
from  its  settlement  in  1790  to  1810."    It  was  elegantly  bound  by  W.  Pratt  for  H.  Stevens, 

isro. 

Plays  AND  Poems  OF  IT.     (Anon.)     Parti.     12°,  pp.  150.     New  York, 
1859. 

Pleasants,  (A.  P.)     Lilies  of  the  Valley.     8°,  pp.  56. 

Pleasants,  (Mrs.  J.)     Cinderella,  etc.    8°,  pp.  16.    Philadelphia,  1864. 

Plumb,  (D.)     The  Slaveholder's  Rebellion.     Fiat  Justitia.     8°,  pp.  15. 
Dated  New  York,  May,  1865. 

POE,  (E.  A.) 

Edgar  Allan  Poe  was  born  at  Boston,  February  19,  1801),  and  was  sent  to  school  at 
Stoke  Newington,  near  Loudon,  England,  by  his  adopted  father,  Mr.  John  Allan,  of 
Richmond,  Va.  In  this  school  he  remained  not  far  from  six  years,  then  studied  for  a  short 
time  at  the  University  of  Virginia,  received  an  appointment  as  Cadet  at  West  Point,  was 
expelled  by  sentence  of  Court  Martial  for  "  gross  neglect  of  all  duty  and  disobedience  of 
orders; "  became  editor  of  the  Southern  Literary  Messenger,  Richmond,  removed  to  New 
York  in  18.37,  where  he  earned  a  precarious  living  by  his  pen ;  published  "  The  Raven  "  in 
"  The  Americvn  Review,"  February,  1845.  After  various  literary  adventures  he  died  at 
Baltimore,  October  7, 1849. 

—  Life  and  Poems.     Memoir   by  R.  H.  Stoddard.     12°,  pp.  xiv,  380. 
New  York,  1875. 

The  following,  condensed  from  John  H.  Ingram's  "  The  Bibliography  of  Edgar  Allan 
Poe,"  may  properly  iind  a  place  here.  After  stating  that  he  had  spared  no  pains  to  make 
the  bibliography  of  Poe  complete  and  exhaustive,  Mr.  Ingram  says  ;  "  Doubtless  transla- 
tions have  appeared  and  disappeared,' without  leaving  any  discoverable  traces  in  the 
somewhat  imperfectly-kept  registers  of  the  past,  whilst  even  distinct  native  publications, 
anonymous  and  pseudonymous,  as  vrell  as  various  editions  of  Poe's  known  works,  may  no 
longer  be  recognizable.  The  poet's  name  and  works  are  well  known  in  Poland,  Hungary 
and  Russia,  but  whether  by  means  of  native  or  foreign  versions,  or  by  journals  or  books, 
is  unknown  to  us;  in  France  and  Spain  Poe's  tales  have  been  frequently  published  in  the 
journals,  enfeuilleton." 

Beginning  with  what  is  so  rare,  "  Tamerlane,  etc.,  Boston,  1827,"  Mr.  Ingram  gives 
the  titles  of  Poe's  "  Works,"  etc.,  to  the  number  of  eighteen,  including  different  editions 
of  the  same,  the  date  being  brought  down  to  1859.  Editions  of  the  "  Poetical  Works,"  "  in 
all  shapes  and  sizes,  with  or  witliout  memoir,  illustrated  or  not,  continued  to  be  issued 
from  the  press."  Mr.  Ingram  makes  no  reference  to  Mr.  Stoddard's  edition,  published  iu 
1875,  which  Mr.  Stoddard  says  is  "  the  first  complete  one  that  has  ever  been  made,  and  con- 
tains, it  is  believed,  all  that  he  published  in  verse." 

Mr.  Ingram  gives  for  the  British  publication  of  Poe's  productions  in  different  edi- 
tions twenty-seven  titles,  the  places  of  publication  being  London,  Edinburgh  and  Halifax. 
The  last  one  refei-red  to  belonged  to  "The  Emerald  Series."  "The  thirteenth  thou- 
sandth," says  Mr.  Ingram,  "  was  announced  a  short  time  ago." 

Five  French  translations  of  Baudelaire's  Series  of  Poe's  Works  are  referred  to  by  Mr. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  205 

POE,  (E.  A.)  —  Continued. 

Ingram.  Six  others  are  mentioned,  one  of  which  is  a  magnificent  edition  de  luxe  of  "  The 
Raven,"  —  •'  Le  Corbeau,"  —  a  large  folio,  Paris,  1875,  "  lUustrfe  par  E.  Manet." 

Nine  titles  are  given  in  German,  the  volumes  having  been  published  in  Leipeig,  Stutt- 
gart and  Philadelphia. 

Reference  is  made,  also,  to  three  Spanish,  two  Italian,  and  one  Australian  title  of 
Poe's  Works. 

—  Poems.     18°,  pp.  124.     New  York,  1831. 

—  Same.     18°,  pp.  xxvi,  172.     London  and  New  York,  1881. 

—  Poetical  Works.     Illustrated.     8°,  pp.  xxx,  247.     New  York,  1858. 

—  The   Raven.     Illustrated   by   Gvistave    Dore,     Comments   by  E.   C. 

Stedman.      Folio.     Harper's    Edition.     Not  paged.     New  York, 
1883. 

An  elegant  copy. 

Poem,  A.  Addressed  to  a  Young  Lady.  In  Three  Parts.  I.  Descrip- 
tive and  Moral.  II.  On  Love  and  Friendship.  III.  The  Cau- 
tion. Written  at  Antigua.  (Anon.)  Sq.  12°,  pp.  33.  Boston, 
1773. 

—  Comprising  a  Few  Thoughts  suggested  by  the  Assault  on   our  Glo- 

rious Flag  in  1860-61.      (E.  B.  R.     Anon.)      18°,  pp.  32.     New 
York,  1861. 

—  On  Reading  the  President's  Address,  etc.     8°,  pp.  6.     Philadelphia, 

1796. 

—  Written  by  a  Virginia  Clergyman  in  a  Storm  of  Wind  and  Rain.    pp. 

3.     Bound  with   "A  Touch  Stone   for  the  Clergy."     No  place, 
1771. 

—  Addressed  to  the  Armies  of  the  United  States.      (Anon.)      12°,  pp. 

16.     New  Haven,  1780. 

—  By  a  New  England  Lady.     (Anon.)     8°,  pp.  20.    Washington,  1833. 

—  Commencement    at    Nassau-Hall,    September    25,    1771.       (Anon.) 

18°,  pp.  27.     Philadelphia,  1772. 

—  The  Poor   Man's,  to  his   Poor  Neighbors.     8°,  pp.  19.     New  York, 

1774. 

Poems.  A  Collection  of.  (By  Several  Hands.  Anon.)  8°,  pp.  55. 
Boston,  1744. 

The  names  of  none  of  the  authors  of  these  collected  poems  are  given,  nor  is  there 
anything  to  indicate  who  the  compiler  was.  Some  of  these  productions  of  the  Colonial 
days  of  New  England  are  very  quaint  and  curious.    One  of  them  has  this  title  :    "  A  full 


206  IIAEEIS    COLLECTION. 

Poems.  —  Continued. 

a»d  true  Account  of  hou-  the  lamentable  n-icJced  French  and  Indian  Pirates  were  taken  by 
the  ralieut  English  Men."  Tlie  following  is  the  doleful  storj-  of  the  fate  of  three  ol  the 
pirates : 

"  Three  of  the  fellows  in  a  fright 
(that  is  to  say  in  feares) 
Leaping  iuto  tlie  sea  out-right, 
sows'd  over  head  and  ears. 

They  on  the  waves  in  woful  wise, 

to  ewim  did  make  a  strife, 
[So  in  a  pond  a  kitten  cries, 

and  dabbles  for  his  life; 

While  boys  about  the  border  scud, 

with  brick-bats  and  with  stones; 
Still  dowse  him  deeper  in  the  mud, 

and  break  his  little  bones.] 

What  came  of  them  we  cannot  tell, 

though  many  things  arc  said; 
But  this  besure,  we  know  full  well, 

if  they  were  drown'd  they're  dead." 

—  AXD  Tales.     By  Maiy  Campbell,  Mary  Mell,  etc.,  noms   de  jjhime 

ofM.  E.  B.     (Anon.)     Mary  E.  Gellie[?]     12°,  pp.  160.     1851. 

—  By  a   South   Carolinian.      (Anon.)      12°,  pp.   vi,   104.     Charleston, 

1848. 

—  By  Croaker,  Croaker  &  Co.,  and  Croaker,  Jr.,  as   publislietl  in  the 

Evening  Post.      16°,  pp.  36.      New  York,  1819. 

This  is  an  untrimmed  copy,  elegantly  bound  by  Bedford.  These  celebrated  poems 
were  written  by  Fitz-Greene  Halleck  and  Joseph  Kodman  Drake,  and  publislied  in  the 
Xew  York  Evening  Post.  Several  of  them  are  satires  of  well-known  characters  of  the 
day,  while  others  were  simply  poetical  efl'usions,  some  of  which  are  among  the  most  charm- 
ing specimens  of  American  poetry.  "  The  World  is  Bright  Before  Thee,"  and  "  There  is 
an  Evening  Twiliglit  of  the  Heart,"  are  very  beautiful. 

—  1830-1833.      Compiler's   name  not  given.     Sq.  8°,   pp.  112.     Pri- 

vately printed,  1862. 

Copy  belonging  to  Henry  Giles,  Esq. 

—  By  a  Harvard  Student.      (Anon.)      12°,  pp.  56.     Boston,  1855. 

—  By  Eaglestone,  {pseud.)     12°,  pp.  104.     Albany,  1857. 

—  By  Gold-Pen,  (pseud.)     2d  Edition,     pp.  285.     Philadelphia,  1856. 

—  Chiefly  in  the  Scottish  Dialect.      (Anon.)     12°,  pp.  xii,  126.     Wash- 

ington, 1801. 

The  author,  a  resident  of  Washington  county,  Pa.,  "  was  a  fierce  Federalist,  and  uses 
the  lash  witli  great  vigor  on  all  opposing  factions.  He  wrote  in  the  time  of  the  Whiskey 
Rebellion,  and  brings  upon  tlie  stage  all  the  prominent  actors  in  Pennsylvania  politics  of 
that  period." 


AMERICAN    rOETRY.  207 

Poems. —  Continued. 

—  Miscellaneous.      (By  Osander,  pscnd.)      18°,  pp.  180.     New  York, 

1812. 

"  Osander  "  w.<is  the  nom  deplume  of  Rev.  Benjamin  Allen. 

—  Miscellaneous.      (Anon.)      12°,  pp.  108.     Place  cut  out,  1828. 

—  Miscellaneous.      Selected   from   the    United   States  Literary   Gazette. 

(Compiler,  anon.)      18°,  pp.  172.     Boston,  1826. 

—  Moral  and  Divine,  etc.     By  an  American  Gentleman.     4°,  pp.  106. 

Printed  by  Charles  Rivington  for  John  and  James  Rivington  in  St. 
Paul's  Churchyard.     London,  1756. 

—  On  Different  Subjects.     By  a  Lady.      (Anon.)      18°,  pp.  117.     Bos- 

ton, 1813. 

—  On  Several  Occasions.     (Anon.)     18°,  pp.  141.     Philadelphia,  1786. 

—  On  Subjects   Arising  in  England  and  the  West  Indies.     4°,  pp.  108. 

London,  1783. 

—  Original.      (Anon.)      12°,  pp.  x,  139.     Baltimore,  1809. 

—  (Supposed  to  have  been  written  by  Mr.  Fisher,  an  Englishman,  edi- 

tor of  the  Albion  newspaper.  New  York.)      12°,  pp.  63.     Boston, 
1820. 

Poesie's  Dream,  etc.      (Anon.)      12°,  pp.  72.     Halifax,  1835. 

Poetical    Description   of   the    Chaste  Virgin,  etc.     (Anon.)     16°, 
pp.  17.     Boston,  1796. 

Poetical    Epistle  to  George  Washington.     By  an  Inhabitant  of  the 
State  of  Mai*yland.     Anon.)      18°,  pp.  10.     London,  1781. 

—  Same.      (Anon.     Ascribed    to  C.    W.    Worster.)     A  Reprint.     4°, 

pp.  24.     New  York,  1865. 

Seventy -five  copies  were  printed,  of  which  twenty-five  were  on  large  paper.    This  is 
No.  6  Lg. 

—  To  the  Enslaved  Africans.      12°,  pp.  24.     Philadelphia,  1790. 

Poetical  Miscellany,  The  American.      12°,  pp.  304.     Philadelphia, 
1809. 

Poets,  American.     Selections  from.     16°,   pp.  356.     Dublin  and  Lon- 
don. 1834. 

Poets  and  Poetry  of  America.      A   Satire.     (Anon.)     18°,  pp.  33. 
Philadelphia,  1847. 


208  IIARRIS    COLLECTION. 

Poetry  of  Animated  Nature.  Illustnitcd.  VoL  I.  8°,  pp.  34.  Phil- 
adelphia, 184G. 

—  The,  of  the  Port-Folio.      (Collected  by  Oliver   Old   School,  pseud.) 

24°,  pp.  144.     Philadelpliia,  1818. 

—  Pliilosophical,  of  the    Book  of  Nature.       (Anon.)       12%   pp.    478. 

Albany,  1845. 

Political  Duenna.     Title  page  wanting.     16°,  pp.  45. 

Political  Green  House,  The.  (Anon.)  16°,  pp.  24.  Hartford, 
1799. 

The  writers  of  this  political  satire  were  Richard  Alsop,  Theodore  Dwight  and  Lemuel 
Hopkins.  The  copy  in  the  "  Harris  Collection  "  is  in  perfect  condition,  very  handsomely 
bound. 

Politicians,  The  ;  or,  a  State  op  Things  Written  by  an  American 
AND  A  Citizen  of  Philadelphia.  8°,  pp.  37.  Philadelphia, 
1798. 

Pollard,  (J.)  Tlie  Decorative  Sisters.  A  Modern  Ballad.  Illustra- 
tions by  W.  Satterlee.     8°,  not  paged.     New  York,  no  date. 

PoLYXENA.  A  Tragedy.  (Anon.  Copyrighted  by  W.  R.  Smith.)  12°, 
pp.  84.      1879. 

Poor  Little  Hearts.  Lines  on  some  Deceased  Hens.  (Anon.)  8°, 
pp.  16.     No  place,  1860. 

Poor,  (J.)  Collection  of  Psalms,  Hymns,  etc.  18°,  pp.  48.  Philadel- 
phia, 1794. 

Poor  of  New  York,  The.  A  Drama.  (Anon.)  12°,  pp.  45.  New 
York,  no  date. 

Poor  Young  Man.  The  Romance  of  A.  From  the  French  of  Octave 
Feuillet.      12°,  pp.  53.     New  York,  no  date. 

Porter,  (C.  L.)  Pebbles  from  the  Lake  Shore.  12°,  pp.  xii,  239. 
Philadelphia,  1855. 

Charles  Leland  I'orter  was  bom  at  Plattsburgli,  New  Y'ork,  in  1829.  He  has  furnished 
articles  to  "  Knickerl)ocker,"  "  Godey's,"  and  other  magazines. 

Porter,  (J.)     Poems.     8°,  pp.  27.     Hartford,  1818. 
—  Poems.     8°,  pp.  27.     Hartford,  1819, 


AMERICAN    POETKY.  209 

Porter,  (J.  A.) 

John  Afldison  Porter,  M.  D.,  was  born  at  Catskill,  N.  Y.,  March  15,  1822,  graduated  at 
Yale  in  18-12,  was  appointed  Professor  in  Delaware  College,  pursued  chemical  studies  under 
Liebig  at  Giessen,  was  Professor  of  Chemistry  in  Brown  University  1850-52,  and  was  pro- 
fessor in  Yale  1852-64.  Professor  Porter  was  the  author  of  two  chemical  text-books,  and 
of  papers  on  scientific  subjects.  He  edited  the  Connecticut  War  Record.  He  died  at  New 
Haven,  August  25, 1866. 

—  Poem.     Yale  College,  July  6, 1842.     8°,  pp.  36.     New  Haven,  1842. 

—  Selections   from  the  Kalevala.     Translated  from  the  German.      12°, 

pp.  vi,  144.     New  York,  1868. 

Porter,  (Rose.)     Foregleams  of  Immortality,  etc.     12°,  pp.  168.    New 

York,  1884. 
Portsmouth,  N.  H.     The  Poets  of.     Compiled  by  A.  M.  Payson  and  A. 

Laighton.     8°,  pp.  405.     Boston,  1865. 
Potomac  Muse,  The.     (Anon.)     12°,  pp.  172.     Richmond,  1825. 

Potter,  (R.)     Phelles,  King  of  Tyre.     A  Tragedy.      18°,  pp.  76.     New 

York,  1825. 
Powell,  (I.)     The  Living  Authors  of  America.     First  Series.     In  the 

volume  are  extracts  from  the  principal  poets  of  the  United  States. 

8°,  pp.  viii,  365.     New  York,  1850. 

Power,  (S.  A.)      Cinderella.      12°,  pp.  12.     Providence,  1867. 
Power,  (T.)     Secrecy.     8°,  pp.  24.     Boston,  1832. 

Powers    of    Fancy,    The,  etc.      (Anon.)      12°,  pp.   93.     Baltimore, 

1822. 
Powers,  (Mrs.  O.  A.)     High-Toned   Sprees.     A  Series  of  Temperance 

Legends.     8th  Edition.      18°,  pp.  80.     Middletown,  N.  Y.,  1877. 

Powiiattan,  The  Land  of.     (Anon.)     18°,   pp.  vi,   120.     Baltimore, 

1821. 
PoYAS,  (C.  G.)     In  Memory  of  Rev.  C.  P.  Gadsden,  Rector  of  St.  Luke's 

Church,  Charleston,  S.  C.     8°,  pp.  6.     Charleston,  S.  C,  1871. 

—  Year  of  Grace.     12°,  pp.  242.     Charleston,  S.  C,  1869. 

Pray,  (I.  C.) 

Isaac  Clark  Pray  was  born  at  Boston  in  1813,  studied  for  a  time  at  Harvard,  and  grad- 
uated at  Amherst  College  in  1833,  engaged  in  journalism  in  Boston  and  New  York,  and 
devoted  many  years  to  the  management  of  theatres,  being  himself  a  professional  actor, 
edited  several  magazines,  and,  1855,  wrote  memoirs  of  James  Gordon  Bennett.  He  died 
at  New  York,  November  28,  1869. 


210  IIAKKIS    COLLECTION. 

Pray,  (I.  C.)  —  Continued. 

—  Julietta   Gordini,  the   Miser's   Daughter.     8°,  pp.   40.     New  York, 

1835. 

—  Poems.     Lg.  8°,  pp.  42.     Boston,  1837. 

—  Prose  and  Verse.     12°,  pp.  186.     Boston,  1836. 

Prentiss,  (C.) 

Charles  Prentiss  was  born  at  Reading,  Mass.,  October  8,  17~1,  graduated  at  Harvard 
1795,  and,  for  many  years  was  a  journalist  and  a  Congressional  reporter.  He  died  at 
Brimlield,  Mass.,  October  20,  1829. 

—  Child  of  Pallas.     12°,  pp.  288.     Baltimore,  1800. 

—  New  England  Freedom.     8°,  pp.  28.     Brookfield,  1813. 

Prescott,  (Henrietta.)  Poem  Written  in  Newfoundland.  12°,  pp. 
xiv,  311.     London,  1839. 

Preston,  (H.  C.)  Poem.  Homcepathic.  8°,  pp.  (with  Dr.  Payne's 
Address)  52.     Boston,  1855. 

Preston,  (Harriet  P.)  The  Georgics  of  Virgil.  Translated.  18°, 
pp.  153.     Boston,  1881. 

Preston,  (Harriet  W.)  Memoirs  of  Madame  Desbordes-Vahiiore.  By 
the  late  C.  A.  Sainte-Beuve.  With  a  Selection  from  her  Poems. 
Translated  by  Harriet  W.  Preston.  12°,  pp.  viii.  Memoirs,  1. 
18°.     Poems,  183-287.     Boston,   1873. 

—  Moreio.     A  Provencal  Poem  by  Frederic  Mistral.     Translated.     12°, 

pp.  xvii,  249.     Boston,  1872. 

—  Troubadours  and  Trouveres.     New  and    Old.      12°,    pp.   viii,   280. 

Boston,  1876. 

Preston,  (Margaret  J.)  Cartoons.  3d  Edition.  16°,  pp.  240.  Bos- 
ton, 1881. 

Presty,  Peggy,  and  other  Ballads.  Illustrated  by  Rosince  Emmet. 
4°,  pp.  64.     New  York,  1880. 

Preuss,  (H.  C.)  "  God  Save  our  Noble  Union,"  etc.  8°,  pp.  8.  Wash- 
ington, 1862. 

Price,  (C.  A.)     Poems.      12°,  pp.  180.     Charleston,  1850. 

Price,  (J.  H.)  Miscellany  in  Verse  and  Prose.  12°,  pp.  168.  Albany, 
1813. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  211 

Price,   (T.    B.)      Kissing  a   Soldier!     A  Drama.      12°,  pp.25.     Balti- 
more, 1863. 
Prime,  (B.  Y.) 

Benjamin  Young  Prime  was  born  at  Huntington,  L.  I.,  December  20,  1733,  graduated 
at  Princeton  in  1751,  and  was  tutor  in  the  college  1756-57,  having  in  tlie  interim  turned  his 
attention  somewliat  to  tlie  study  of  medicine.  He  went  to  Europe  in  1762  to  pursue  to 
better  advantage  his  professional  studies  as  a  physician.  After  a  residence  abroad  of  not 
far  from  three  years,  lie  took  his  medical  degree  at  the  University  of  Leyden.  He  became, 
as  we  are  told,  "  a  highly  accomplished  scholar,  eminent  for  his  matlieinatical,  philosoph- 
ical and  classical  attainments.  He  was  in  the  habit  of  writing  with  great  facility  both 
prose  and  poetry,  in  the  Hebrew,  Greek,  Latin,  French  and  Spanish  languages;  and  in  the 
opening  of  the  Revolutionary  struggle  his  patriotic  and  popular  songs  spread  like  wild- 
fire over  the  land,  and  helped  to  kindle  the  sparks  of  liberty  into  a  flame."  The  curious 
reader  will  tind  some  of  these  songs  in  the  Curiosities  of  American  Literature,  appended 
by  Griswold  to  D'lsrael's  Collection,  and  in  Duyckinck,  vol.  i,  pp.  433-34.  Dr.  Prime  for 
several  years  practiced  his  profession  in  the  city  of  New  York,  and  then  removed  to 
Huntington  to  be  with  his  father  in  liis  declining  years.  Here  he  died  October  31,  1791. 
One  of  his  sons,  Rev.  Dr.  Nathaniel  Scudder  Prime,  was  the  lather  of  Dr.  Prime,  the 
"  Irenteus  "  of  the  Xew  York  Observer. 

—  Columbia's    Glory ;  or,   British    Pride    Humbled.     A   Poem  on  the 

American  Revolution  :  some  part  of  it  being  a  parody  on  an  ode 
entitled  Britain's  Glory  ;  or,  Gallic  Pride  Humbled.  Composed 
on  the  Capture  of  Quebec,  A.  D.  1759.  8°,  pp.  vi,  42.  New 
York,  1791. 

This  poem,  of  1,441  lines,  "  was  ready  for  publication  at  the  close  of  the  war,  but,  as 
the  author  informs  us,  in  consequence  of  a  seven  years'  absence  from  the  city,  his  affairs 
had  become  somewhat  deranged,  and  as  no  printer  could  be  found  to  execute  the  work  on 
any  but  cash  terms,  he  postponed  publishing  it  for  a  few  years." 

—  Muscipula,  sive  Cambromyomachia.     The    Mouse    Trap,  etc.      16°, 

pp.  96.     New  York,  1840. 

Primer,  New  England  ;  or,  an  Easy  and  Pleasant  Guide  to  the 
Art  of  Reading.  Adorn'd  with  Cutts.  To  which  are  added, 
The  Assembly  of  Divines'  Catechism,  etc.  Boston  :  Printed  and 
sold  by  J.  White,  near  Charles  River  Bridge. 

This  is  a  small  .32^  book,  not  paged,  printed  probably  in  1789.  So  far  as  is  known  the 
earliest  copy  of  the  Primer  now  in  existence  was  printed  in  Boston  in  1737.  This,  together 
with  five  other  copies,  brought  at  the  Brinley  sale,  $612.  It  is  not  known  wlio  compiled 
the  Primer,  or  the  date  of  the  first  publication. 

—  Same.     New  York,  1829. 

Prince,  Erick.      (Anon.)     A  Satire.     8°,  pp.  32.     New  York,  1872, 

Princeton  College   Productions.     1868.     Several  Poems  in  the  vol- 
ume.     8°,  pp.  115.      No  date. 
30 

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212  IIAKKIS    COLLECTION. 

Prisoner,  Tiik.     (Anon.)     16°,  pp.  24.     Trenton,  1802. 

Prize  Book,  The.     No.   1.     Latin  School,  Boston.     8°,  pp.  63.     Bos- 
ton, 1820. 

This  volume  contains  it  Latin  Poem  by  William  ?y  ewell ;  Latin  Translation  of  Pope's 
Messiah,  by  Samuel  Parker;  English  Translation  of  .Juvenal's  Satire  111.,  by  E.  H.  Derby; 
English  Translation  of  Horace,  Ode  X.,  Book  IL,  by  J.  H.  Deblois,  and  an  English  Poem 
by  E.  H.  Derby. 

Proctor,  (Ednah  Dean.)     Poems.     18°,  pp.  iv,  140.     New  York,  1866. 

Progress,  A  Poet's.     16°,  pp.  12.     New  York,  1818. 

—  The,  of  Society.      (Anon.)      18°,  pp.  vii,  62.     New  York,  1817. 

Prometheus'  Diarial  Account,  etc.     (Anon.)     8°.     Chicago,  1869. 

Prose,  with  which  several  poems  are  bound. 

Proser,  A.     Poems  by.      (Anon.)      18°,  pp.  48.     New  York,  1831. 
Ps  AND  Qs.      (Anon.)      18°,  pp.  200.     Boston,  1828. 
Psalm-Book,  The  New  England. 

An  imperfect  copy. 

—  Same.     18°,  pp.  360.     Boston,  1758. 

—  Same.     27th  Edition.     18°,  pp.  334.     Boston,  1762. 

Psalms.     Allowed  by  the  Synod  of  New  York  and  Philadelphia.     24°, 
pp.306.     New  York,  1790. 

—  Same.     24°,  pp.  285.     Philadelphia,  1792. 

Psalms  and  Hymns.     A  Collection,  etc.     Revised  Edition,  with  Supple- 
ment.     (Anon.)      18°,  pp.  508.     New  York,  1857. 

Psalms,   Hymns,   etc.     2  vols,  in  1.     24°,  pp.  90,  90.     London,  1719 
and  1741. 

Bought  at  the  Brinley  sale.    Small  print,  a  clean,  perfect  copy,  and  richly  bound. 

Psalms,  New  England.     25th  Edition.     18°,  pp.  346.     Boston,  1742. 

A  perfect  and  elegantly  bound  copy. 

Psalms,  The,  |  Hymns,  |  and  |  Spiritual  Songs  |  of  the  |  Old  and 
New  Testament.  [  Faithfully  Translated  into  |  English  Metre.  | 
For  the  use,  edification  and  comfort  of  the  Saints  in  publick  and 
private,  especially  in  Neiv  England.  \  2.  Tim.  3.  16,  17.  |  Col.  3. 
16.  Let  the  Word  of  God  dwell  in  you  richly  in  all  tvisdome, 
teaching  and  admonishing  one  another  in  Psalms,  Hymns,  and 
Spiritual   Songs,  Singing  to  the  Lord  with   grace  in  your  hearts.  \ 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  213 

Psalms,  The,  etc.  —  Continued. 

Ephes.    0.    18,    19.     Be  filled    loith,    &c.  \  James    5.   13.  |  Cam- 
bridge. I  Printed  for  Hezekiah  Usher,  of  Bostoo.  |  No  date. 

"  Bostoo  "  is  evidently  a  misprint  for  Boston. 

The  above  is  an  exact  copy  —  the  only  change  being  in  placing  the  word  "  the"  after, 
instead  of  before,  the  word  "  Psalms  "  —  of  one  of  the  most  unique  and  most  valuable  vol- 
umes in  "The  Harris  Collection."  It  is  a  12°,  pp.  106,  printed  at  Cambridge,  England. 
Just  over  the  word  Cambridge,  a  little  to  the  right  is  written,  H.  M.  There  is  nothing  to 
indicate  who  H.  M.  was.  At  the  bottom  of  the  page  is  the  letter  C.  Six  of  the  originally 
blank  pages  at  the  beginning  of  the  book  are  covered  with  sliort-hand  writing.  At 
the  bottom  of  the  sixth  page  some  one  lias  written  in  pencil  1650[?]  The  figures  indica- 
ting the  first  fourteen  pages  are  written,  not  printed,  and  are  in  Roman  characters.  Page  i 
is  the  title  page.  Page  ii  is  blank.  Pages  iii-vii  is  the  Preface,  which  is  a  reproduc- 
tion of  the  Preface  in  the  Bay  Psalm  Book,  with  the  exception  that  certain  abbreviations 
in  the  Preface  of  the  Bay  Psalm  Book  are  expanded  in  the  later  Psalm  Book,  and  there  are 
some  changes  in  spelling.  Occupying  one-thira  of  the  middle  of  page  viii,  the  remaining 
two-thirds  being  blank,  is  the  address  "  To  the  Godly  Reader  "  as  follows  ;  "  We  know 
that  these  Psalms,  and  Hymns,  and  Spirituall  Songs,  though  in  other  Languages  (and  so 
consequently  in  other  Poeticall  Measures)  were  inspired  by  the  Holy  Ghost,  to  holy  men 
of  old,  for  the  edification  and  comfort  of  the  Church  and  People  of  God  in  all  ensuing  ages 
to  the  end  of  the  world.  And  for  these  holy  ends  we  Iiavewith  speciall  care  and  diligence 
translated  them  into  such  Meeters  as  are  most  usuall  and  suitable  for  such  holy  Poems,  in 
our  language,  having  special  eye  both  to  the  gravity  of  the  phrase  of  Sacred  Writ  and 
sweetness  of  the  Verse.  And  for  fuller  satisfaction  of  the  godly  desires  of  all,  we  have 
added  sundry  interpretations,  according  to  the  latitude  of  the  significations  of  the  Hebrew 
Text,  commonly  noted  with  an  asterisk  thus  [*J,  and  some  other  various  reaiiings,  though 
not  so  noted."  On  page  ix  are  several  passages  tt'anslated  from  the  Old  Testament.  The 
following  is  Hab.  3,  9  : 

"  His  chariots  of  Salvation  were. 
Streams  by  thy  bow  their  channels 

leave : 
Th'  oath  words  to  th'  tribes  that  thou 

didst  swear 
Thou  didst  the  earth  with  rivers 
cleave-" 

Pages  x-xiv  contain  Songs  of  Moses.  1.  Exod.  15.  After  the  passage  through  the 
Red  Sea.  2.  Deut.  .32.  The  Prophetical  Song,— The  Song  of  Deborah  and  Barak. 
Judges  5.  The  Song  of  Hannah.  I.  Sam.  2.  David's  Elegie.  II.  Sam.  1,  17'-27.  We  give 
one  example  of  the  remarkable  versification  of  an  old  Puritan  hymologist,  selecting  it 
from  a  famous  passage  in  the  Song  of  Deborah  and  Barak.    Judges,  v.  28 — 31. 

"  2§.    Out  of  a  window  Sisera 

his  mother  look'd  and  said. 
The  lattess  through,  in  coming  why 
So  long's  his  chariot  staid? 
His  chariot  wheeles,  why  tarry  they? 

29.  Her  wise  dames  answered; 
Yea  she  turn'd  answer  to  her  selfe. 

30.  And  what  have  they  not  sped? 
The  prey  by  poll  a  Maid  or  twain 

what  parted  have  not  they? 


214  II  ARRIS    COLLECTION. 


Psalms,  Thk,  etc.  —  Continued. 

Have  they  not  parted  Sisera 
a  party-coloured  prey? 

A  party-coloured  nield-work  prey, 
of  nield-work  on  each  side, 

That's  party-coloured,  meet  for 
necks 

Of  them  that  spoiles  divide? 


31.    So  perish  let  thine  enemies  all 

O  Lord ;  but  let  each  wight 
That  do  him  love,  be  like  the  .Sun 

that  goes  out  in  his  might." 

The  Tsalter  is  pp.  1—93.  The  Song  of  Songs,  which  is  Solomon's,  pp.  94-98.  The  Songs 
in  the  Prophet  Isaiah,  pp.  98-101,  being  selected  from  Chaps,  v,  xii,  in  two  "  Meeters," 
XXV,  xxvi  and  xxxviii,  "  The  Song  of  Hezekiah,  after  his  recovery  from  sickness."  The 
Lamentations  of  Jeremiah,  Chap,  iii,  v.  The  Prayer  of  Jonah,  Chap.  ii.  A  Prayer  of 
Habakuk,  Chap.  iii.  Three  Songs  from  Luke.  1.  The  Song  of  the  blessea  Virgin  Mary, 
Luke  i,  46.  2.  The  Song  of  Zacharias,  verses  08-79.  3.  The  Song  of  Simeon,  Luke  ii,  29. 
Then  follow  several  translations  of  short  passages  in  the  Book  of  Revelation.  The  fore- 
going are  pp.  101-106. 

At  the  bottom  of  p.  xiv  there  is  a  blank  space  of  about  one-fifth  of  the  page.  On  this 
blank  space  some  one  has  pasted  a  small  engraving  of  a  monk,  apparently  with  shaven 
head,  and  cowl  thrown  back,  and  face  upturned  to  heaven,  as  if  he  were  in  the  act  of 
prayer. 

On  one  of  the  fly  leaves,  at  the  end  of  the  volume,  is  a  written  version  of  the  8th  Psalm, 
in  five  verses,  by  whom  made  there  is  nothing  to  show. 

A  slip  cut  from  Longman,  IS.st).  is  pasted  on  the  bottom  of  the  inside  of  the  right  cover. 
At  the  end  of  the  title  we  read,  "  extremeJy  rare,  8°,  188." 

For  a  valuable  bibliographical  note,  prepared  by  VVilberforce  Eames  of  the  Lenox 
Library,  on  this  very  rare  volume,  see  Sabin's  Dictionary  of  Books  relating  to  America, 
Parts  xci-xcii,  p. 30.  Mr.  Eames,  who  has  devoted  much  time  and  research  in  ascertaining 
all  that  can  be  learned  about  "the  Psalms,  Hymns,  etc.,"  in  the  different  editions  from 
1651  to  1672,  says  :  "  The  only  copy  of  this  edition  that  I  know  of  was  sold  at  the  Brinley 
sale  for  §90,  and  is  now  in  the  library  of  Brown  University  at  Providence." 

PcMMiLL,  (J.)     Russet  Leaves.      12°,  pp.  213.     Philadelphia,  1870. 
PuMPELLY,  (M.  H.)     Poems.     8°,  pp.  iv,  76.     New  York,  1852. 
PURDY,  (S.  S.)     Paul  Pry  Songster.     16°,  pp.  64.     New  York,  1865. 
Putnam,  (Mrs.  M.  L.) 

Mary  Lowell,  sister  of  James  Russell  Lowell,  was  born  at  Boston,  December  3,  1810, 
distinguished  in  early  life  for  her  linguistic  attainments,  married  in  18.32  Samuel  R.  Put- 
nam, a  Boston  merchant,  who  died  in  1861.  Mrs.  I'utnam  is  one  of  the  most  accomplished 
female  writers  in  America. 

—  A  Translation  of  "The  Bondmaid."      By  Frederika  Bremer.      16°, 

pp.  vi,  112.     Boston,  1844. 

—  Tragedy  of  Errors.     16°,  pp.  249.     Boston,  1862. 

—  Tragedy  of  Success.     16°,  pp.  191.     Boston,  1862. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  215 

Quaker  Quiddities  ;  or,  Friends  in  Council.     A  Colloquy.     (Anon.) 
12°,  pp.  48.     Boston,  1860. 

The  name  of  the  author  of  this  little  volume,  J.  B.  Congdon,  is  not  given  on  the  title 
page.  It  is  "dedicated  to  the  Alumni  of  the  Yearly-Meeting  School,  Providence,  by  an 
Undergraduate."  The  writer,  a  birth-right  Friend,  while  admitting  the  decline  of  Quaker- 
ism, says  that  "  the  vital  questions  are  :  '  Is  it  worth  saving?  '  '  Can  it  be  saved?  '  '  How 
can  it  be  saved?  '  One  thing  is  sure,  it  must  show  its  right  to  a  distinctive  place  in  the 
world's  civilization  by  something  more  significant  and  progressive  than  a  formless  method 
in  its  meetings  and  a  uniform  costume.  Its  negations  cannot  give  it  a  longer  lease  of  life. 
It  must  in  some  way  grapple  with  the  world  and  show  its  potency  by  helping  the  world 
onward.  The  world  is  demanding  aid  from  every  organization  that  has  for  its  object  the 
inculcation  of  moral  and  religious  truth.  It  is  not  satisfied,  it  should  not  be  satisfied,  with 
the  plea  of  self-preservation.    It  seems  to  me  that  Quakerism  is  dying  of  isolation." 

Quarter  Day  Exercises,  Yale  College,  March  28,  1776.     12°,  pp. 
31.     Hartford,  1776. 

These  "  Exercises  "  are  two  dialogues,  the  second  of  which  is  entitled  "  On  the  Suc- 
cess of  our  Arms  and  the  Rising  Glory  of  America."  The  speakers  are  Count  Massilon,  a 
French  gentleman,  and  Narvon,  an  American.  The  piece  is  filled  with  the  patriotic  spirit 
of  Revolutionary  times. 

QUINCY,   (J.  P.) 

Josiah  Phillips  Quincy,  a  grandson  of  President  Quincy  of  Harvard  College,  was 
born  at  Boston  in  1830,  and  graduated  at  Harvard  in  1850.  In  1854  he  published,  as  literary 
curiosities,  not  as  illustrations  of  the  text,  "  Manuscript  Corrections  from  a  copy  of  the 
Fourth  Folio  of  Shakespeare's  Plays."  This  is  the  pamphlet  to  which  Professor  F.  Bowen 
refers  in  an  able  article  in  the  North  American  Review,  April,  1854,  on  the  "  Restoration  of 
the  Text  of  Shakespeare."  He  remarks  :  "  Copies  of  the  old  folio  editions  of  Shakespeare 
containing  manuscript  corrections  of  the  text  made  by  some  unknown  hand  are  not  rare 
or  difficult  to  be  had."  One  "  exists  here  in  Boston."  Mr.  Quincy  was  a  contributor  to 
the  pages  of  "  Sartain,"  "  Putnam,"  etc. 

—  Charicles.     A  Dramatic  Poem.      12°,  pp.  viii,  102.     Boston,  1856. 

—  Lyteria.     A  Dramatic  Poem.      16°,  pp.  123.     Boston,  1854. 

The  two  works  of  which  the  titles  are  given  above  are  warmly  commended  in  the 
North  American  Review,  the  latter  in  January  No.,  1855,  and  the  former  in  January  No., 
1857. 

Radical  Club.     (Anon.)     18°,  pp.  14.     Boston,  1876. 

Rake,  The  Nassau.     (Edited  and  Published  by  the  Sophomore  Class  of 
the  College  of  New  Jersey.)     8°,  pp.  96.     Princeton,  June,  1858. 

Ralling,  (J.)     Miscellaneous.      12°,  pp.  24.     Philadelphia,  1790. 

—  Miscellaneous  Sketches   in  Prose    and  Verse.      12°,   pp.   24.     New- 

buryport,  1796. 

—  The  Time  Piece.     8°,  pp.  vi,  170.     Philadelphia,  1803. 


21(3  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

Ralph,  (J.) 

Jiimcs  Kalpli  was  born,  as  is  supposeii,  at  Pliihulelpliia,  not  far  from  the  year  1698. 
For  a  time  he  taiiglit  scliool  in  his  native  city,  wliere  he  formed  the  acquaintance  of 
Franklin,  and  accompanied  Iiim  on  his  visit  to  England  in  1724.  He  seems  to  have  lived 
in  a  desultory  sort  of  way,  writing  as  a  political  pampheteer,  appearing  as  an  actor  on  the 
stage,  composing  verses,  etc.  He  published,  in  17128,  his  "Night,"  referred  to  below,  to 
which  I'ope,  in  his  "Dunciad, "alluded  in  severe  terms.  Subsequently  he  became  the  author 
of  !i  number  of  works,  prose  and  poetical,  some  of  which  were  commended.  He  died  at 
Chiswick,  January  24,  1702. 

—  Clarinda  ;  or,  The  Fair  Libertine.     8°,  pp.  G4.     London,  1729. 

—  Night.     12°,  pp.  X,  75.     London,  1728. 

The  lines  from  Pope's  "  Dunciad  "  alluded  to  above,  were  as  follows  : 
"  Silence,  ye  wolves,  while  Ralph  to  Cynthia  howls, 
And  makes  night  hideous  :    Answer  him,  ye  owls." 

—  Sawney.      12°,  pp.  xvi,  45  London,  1728. 

—  The  Fashionable  Lady.     8°,  pp.  94.     London,  1730. 

—  The  Muses'  Address  to  the  King.      12°,  pp.  43.      London,  1728. 

—  The  Tempest ;  or.  The   Terrors   of  Death.      16°,   pp.  27.     London, 

1727. 

—  Zeuma  ;  or.  The  Love  of  Liberty.     8°,  pp.  vi,  136.     London,  1729. 

Rand,  (E.  S.,  Jk.)     Life  Memories,  etc.     12°,  pp.  176.     Boston,  1859. 

Rant)all,    (J.  W.,  M.  D.)     Consolations  of  Solitude.     12°,   pp.   261. 
Boston,    1856. 

This  copy  contains  many  corrections  and  improvements  in  writing  by  the  author. 

Randolph,   (A.   D.  F.)     Hopefully   Waiting,   etc.     Sq.    16°,   pp.    101. 

New  York,  1867, 

The  well-known  New  York  Publisher. 

Randolph,  Ida,   of  Virginia.     (Anon.)     12°,  pp.   60.     Philadelphia, 
1860. 

Rankin,  (Mrs.  S.  B.)     Centennial  Poem.     8°,  pp.  24.     Peoria,  111.,  no 
date. 

Rankin,  (J.  E.)      Heather  Bells.     8°,  pp.  20.     Washington,  1872. 

a  Congregational  clergyman  for  several  years  settled  in  Washington,  D.  C. 

Ratcatcher's  Daughter,  The.     (Anon.)     Illustrated.      Sq.    18°,   not 
paged.     London,  no  date. 

Ray,  (L.)     Phi  Beta  Kappa  Poem,  Yale,  August  18,  1847.     8°,  pp.  16. 
New  Haven,  1847. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  217 

Ray,  (W.) 

William  Kay  was  born  at  Salisbury,  Conn.,  December,  17?1.  ^Vhen  he  was  nineteen  he 
took  charge  of  a  school  in  Dover,  Dutchess  county,  N.  Y.,  then  embarked  in  business,  was 
unfortunate,  and  after  various  fortunes,  he  enlisted  June  13,  1803,  in  the  maratime  service 
of  the  United  States,  and  on  the  3d  of  July  following  embarked  on  board  the  Philadelphia, 
under  command  of  Captain  Bainbridge,  to  join  the  squadron  against  Tripoli.  The  frigate 
having  run  upon  a  shoal  in  the  harbor  of  Tripoli,  was  taken  by  the  pirates,  and  Ray  and 
his  companions  were  made  prisoners,  and  endured  the  severest  hardship  from  which  they 
were  not  released  until  June  3,  1805.  The  subject  of  this  .sketch  returned  to  the  United 
States  in  1S06.  For  a  time  he  engaged  in  mercantile  pursuits,  and  when  war  was  declared 
in  1812,  he  received  an  appointment  as  Major,  serving,  however,  only  for  a  short  time. 
He  linally  settled  in  Onondaga,  N.  Y'.,  where  he  was  Justice  of  the  Peace  and  Commissioner 
in  Courts  of  Record.    His  death  took  place  at  Auburn,  N.  Y.,  in  1827. 

Everest  says  ;  "  His  poems  are  characterised  by  melodious  versification,  and  are  often, 
forcible." 

—  Poems.      12°,  pp.  254.     Title-page  gone. 

—  Same.     8°,  pp.  viii,  254.     Auburn,  1821. 

—  Poems  on  Various  Subjects.     18°,  pp.  252.     New  York,  182G. 

Read,  (H.  F.) 

Harriet  Fanning  Read  was  born  at  Jamaica  Plain,  near  Boston,  her  father  being  a 
"  book-seller  and  publisher,  and  a  man  of  much  intelligence  and  taste."  Her  grandfather 
on  the  mother's  side  was  a  distinguished  officer  in  the  British  army  in  the  Revolutionary 
war.  When  young  she  removed  to  Washington  and  became  an  inmate  of  her  uncle  Col- 
onel Fanning's  family.  Upon  the  death  of  her  uncle  in  18:16,  she  removed  to  New  York. 
In  February,  1848,  she  made  her  appearance  as  an  actress  at  the  Boston  Theatre,  and  after- 
wards played  in  Washington.    Of  her  subsequent  career  we  have  no  information. 

—  Dramatic  Poems.     8°,  pp.  vi,  297.     Boston,  1848. 

The  poems  in  this  volume  are  Medea,  Erominia,  and  the  New  World. 

Read,  (Mrs.  M.  S.)     The  Wild  Flower.     32°,  pp.  96.     Portland,  1848. 
Read,  (T.  B.) 

Thomas  Buchanan  Read  was  born  in  Chester  county,  Penn.,  March  12, 1822.  In  1836 
he  went  to  Cincinnati  and  entered  the  studio  of  the  Sculptor  Clevinger  and  learned  the  art 
of  the  chisel,  and  on  the  departure  of  his  master  to  Europe  he  turned  his  attention  to  por- 
trait painting,  in  which  he  soon  achieved  reputation  and  succes.  In  1841  he  removed  to 
New  I'ork  and  the  following  year  to  Boston,  where  he  married  and  resided  for  five  years, 
practicing  his  profession  and  engaged  in  literary  pursuits,  the  productions  of  his  pen 
attracting  attention  from  the  literary  world.  In  1846  he  took  up  his  residence  in  Philadel- 
phia, and  in  1850  went  to  Florence,  where,  witli  occasional  visits  to  the  United  States,  he 
resided  for  twenty-five  years.  On  his  return  to  America  early  in  1872,  he  resided  during 
the  few  remaining  months  of  his  life  chiefly  in  Philadelphia  and  Cincinnati.  He  died  in 
New  York,  May,  1872. 

For  notice  of  liis  works,  (see  Allibone,  pp.  1752-53.) 

—  A  Summer  Story.     Sheridan's  Ride,  etc.      12°,  pp.  ix,  154.     Phila- 

delphia, 1865. 


218  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

Read,  (T.  B.)  —  Continued. 

—  Gems  from  his  Poetical  Works.     Sq.  16°.      "  Drifting,"  not  paged. 

'' Bruslnvood,"   not  paged.      "Christine,"  pp.  45.     Philadelphia, 
1884. 

—  Lays  and  Ballads.     2d  Edition.     8°,  pp.  140.     Philadelphia,  1849. 

—  Poems.     12°,  pp.  124.     Boston,  1847. 

—  Same.     2  vols.     8°,  pp.  426-426.     Boston,  1860. 

—  Sylvia,  etc.     8°,  pp.  158.     Philadelphia,  1857. 

—  Tlie  Female  Poets  of  America,  witli  Portraits,  Biographical  Notices 

and  Specimens  of  their  Writings.     8°,  pp.  xvi,  420.     Philadelphia, 
1849. 

—  The  Home  by  the  Sea.     8°,  pp.  152.     Philadelphia,   1856.    . 

—  The  New  Pastoral.     8°,  pp.  xiv,  249.     Philadelphia,  1855. 

—  Same.     New  Edition.      12°,  pp.  249.     Philadelphia,  1856. 

—  The  Poetical  Works.     In  3  vols.      12°,  pp.   426,  423,  420.     Phila- 

delphia, 1866. 

—  The  Wagoner  of  the  Alleghanies.     8°,  pp.  276.     Philadelphia,  1863. 

—  Same.     Illustrated   from   Drawings   by  Hovenden,  Fenn,  Gaul  and 

Low.      12°,  pp.  74.     Philadelphia,  1885. 

A  beautiful  copy.    Bound,  Alligator  limp. 

Read,  (Y.)     Masks.     12°,  pp.  48.     New  York,  1838. 

Reade,  (J.)  The  Prophecy  of  Merlin,  etc.  16°,  pp.  237.  Montreal, 
1870. 

Red  Book,  The.  Prose  and  Poetry.  A  Serial.  2  vols.  18°,  pp.,  vol. 
i,  171,  vol.  ii,  continues  174-262,  and  this  really  completes  vol.  i. 
pp.  87  of  vol.  ii,  are  bound  in  the  second  of  the  two  volumes.  Bal- 
timore, 1819-20. 

The  first  number  is  dated  October  23,  1819. 

Red  Rover,  The.  A  Drama  founded  on  J.  F.  Cooper's  Novel  of  that 
Name.      18°,  pp.  52.     Philadelphia,  no  date. 

Redburn  ;  or,  The  Schoolmaster  OF  A  Morning.  (Anon.)  12°,  pp. 
71.     New  York,   1845. 

Redden,  (Laura  C.)  Idyls  of  Battle  and  Poems  of  the  Rebellion.  16°. 
New  York,  1864. 


AMEKICAN    POETRY.  219 

Rede,  (W.  L.)  The  Flight  to  America;  or,  Ten  Hours  in  New  York 
A  Drama.     18°,  pp.  47.     Philadelphia  and  New  York,  no  date. 

Reed,  (P.  F.)  The  Voices  of  the  Wind,  etc.  12°,  pp.  199.  Chicago, 
1868. 

Reed,  (R.  G.)  Thoughts  from  Scripture.  8°,  pp.  64.  New  York, 
1843. 

Rees,  (J.) 

James  Rees  was  born  at  Morristown,  Pa.,  in  1802,  and  was  a  journalist  in  Philadelphia, 
and  held  office  in  the  Post  Office  of  that  city.    He  died  in  Pennsylvania  in  1885. 

—  The  Battle  of  Saratoga.     16°,  pp.  20.     New  York,  1839. 

—  The  Dramatic  Authors  of  America.      12°,   pp.   xi,    144.     Philadel- 

phia, 1845. 

Rees,  (L.  S.  D.)  Theroique  de  Mericourt.  A  Romance.  In  Five  Parts. 
Parts  I,  II,  12°,  pp.  32,  44.     Philadelphia,  1855. 

Reiff,  (D.  p.)     Poems.     3d  Edition.     8°,  pp.  100.     St.  Louis,  1865. 

Reign  of  Reform,  The;  or,  Yankee  Doodle  Court.  (Anon.)  16°, 
pp.  146.     Baltimore,  1830. 

Rejected  Addresses.  Presented  for  the  Cup  offered  for  the  best  Address 
at  the  Opening  of  the  New  Theatre,  Philadelphia.  18°,  pp.  107. 
Philadelphia,  1823. 

Relly,  (J.  AND  J.)  Christian  Hymns.  8°.  pp.  iv,  235.  Burlington, 
1776. 

—  Same.     12°,  pp.  241.     Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  1782. 

Remains  OF  My  Early  Friend.      (Anon.)     16°,  pp.  55.     Keene,  N.  H., 

1828. 
Remington,  (A.  G.)     Prose  and  Verse.     18°,   pp.  106.     New  York,  no 

date. 

Reno,  (Lydia  M.) 

She  was  born  at  Rochester,  Penn.,  1831,  a  contributor  to  several  periodicals. 

—  Early  Buds.      12°,  pp.  309.     Boston  and  Cambridge,  1853. 
Renville,  (J.  and  Sons.)     Hymns  in  the  Dakota  or  Sioux  Languages. 

18°,  pp.  105.     Boston,  1842. 
31 


220  UAKKIS    COLLECTION. 

Repository,  The  Songsters'.  (Anon.)  12°,  pp.  286.  New  York, 
1811. 

Requier,  (A.  J.) 

Augustus  Julian  Uequier  was  born  at  Charleston,  S.  C,  May  27,  1825,  and  was  of 
French  extraction.  lie  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  1844,  and  held  the  position  of  District 
Attorney  for  the  southern  district  of  Alabama,  1853-61,  and  held  the  same  office  under 
the  Confederate  Government. 

—  Poems.     12°,  pp.  190.     Philadelphia,   1860. 

Response  to  Charleston.     A  Poem,  etc.     12°,  pp.  15.     No  place,  1848. 

Retreat,  A,  from  Town.     8°,  pp.  24.     Boston,  1815. 

Retrospect,  etc.     (Anon.)     12°,  pp.  viii,  142.     Boston,   1846. 

Reunion  Graduates.  Senior  Department  of  School  No.  47,  12th  Street, 
New  York.  Several  Poems  in  the  volume.  4°,  pp.  73.  New 
York,  1865. 

Revelation  of  Nature  with  the  Prophecy  of  Reason.  (Anon.)  16°, 
pp.  xxxix,  164.     New  York,  no  date. 

Reveries  IN  Rhyme.  (By  "Nemo"  of  Louisiana  —  in  pencil  John  L. 
Megee.)      12°,  pp.  88.     New  York,  1846. 

Revolution  in  Orcus.  (By  PiangPu,  pseud.)  12°,  pp.  vi,  112.  New 
York,  1848. 

Revolutionary  "War,  History  of,     12°,  pp.  243.     Title-page  gone. 

Reynolds,  (D.  C.)  A  Romance  in  Smoke.  4°,  pp.  26.  Providence, 
1876, 

Illustrations  by  W.  F.  Brown. 

Reynolds,  (J.  P.)     Poems.     24°,  pp.  20,     Freehold,  N.  J.,  1851. 

Reynolds,  (T.)  A  Poem  Spoken  on  the  Summit  of  Wamaug  Mountain, 
August  16,  1820.      18°,  pp.  12.     New  Haven,  1820, 

Rhand,  (Tally.  A  pseud.)  Guttle  and  Gulpit.  A  Farce.  12°,  pp. 
36.     New  York,  1854. 

Rhapsody,  A.      (Anon.)     8°,  pp.  19.     New  York,  1789. 

Rhode  Island  Cottage.     (Anon.)      18°,  pp.  108.     New  York,  1835. 


AMEKICAN    POETRY.  221 

Rhodes,  (W.  H.)  Poem.  Twenty-first  Anniversary  of  the  Coi'porate 
Society  of  California  Pioneers,  September  9,  1871.  8°,  pp.  7. 
San  Francisco,  1871. 

—  The  Indian  Gallows,  etc.     8°,  pp.  153.     New  York,  1846. 

Rhodomanthus,  etc.     (Anon.)     12°,  pp.  23.     No  place,  1858. 

Rhtjie,  Stories  ix.  (Anon.  Entered  by  S.  S.)  8°,  pp.  48.  New 
York,  1850. 

Rhyme,  The  Age  of  ;  or,  A  Glance  at  the  Poets.  By  a  Southerner. 
8°,  pp.  30.     Charleston,  1830. 

Rhtmed  Tactics.     (By  "Gov.,"  j^seud.)- 18°,  pp.  144.    New  York,  1862. 

Rhymers'  Club,  The.  (By  an  Honorary  Member.  Anon.)  12°,  pp. 
71.     New  York,  1859. 

Rhymes  for  My  Children.  (By  a  Mother.  Anon.)  18°,  pp.  108.  Bos- 
ton, 1837. 

Rhyming  Story  Book.     (Anon.)     Sq.  12°,  pp.  64.     New  York,  1867. 

Rice,  (G.  E.) 

George  Edward  Rice  was  born  at  Boston  in  1822,  and  graduated  at  Harvard  in  1840. 
He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  and  practiced  in  Boston  for  several  years.  His  death  occurred 
at  Roxbury,  Mass.,  in  1863. 

—  An  Old  Play  in  a  New  Garb.    Hamlet.     12°,  pp.  59.     Boston,  1852. 

—  Blondel :  A  Historic  Fancy.      12°,  pp.  51,     Boston,  1854. 

—  Myrtilla.     A  Fairy  Extravaganza.     12°,  pp.  35.     Boston,  1854. 

"  These  dramatic  pieces,"  t.  c,  the  above,  says  Allibone,  "display  a  very  uncommon 
species  of  talent." 

—  Nugamenta  ;  A  Book  of  Verses.      12°,  pp.  viii,  145.     Boston,  1860. 

The  North  American  Review,  July,  1860,  p.  273,  says  :  "  With  these  2\^Hgamenta  there 
are  several  pieces  of  altogether  higher  order,  which  evince  in  the  author  true  poetic  sensi- 
bility and  an  easy  command  of  imagery,  language  and  rhythm." 

—  (and  J.  H.  Wainwright.)     Ephemera.     12°,    pp.    112.     Boston, 

1852. 

Rice,  (H.) 

Harvey  Rice  was  born  at  Conway,  Mass.,  in  1800,  graduated  at  Williams  College  in 
1820,  removed  to  Cleveland,  Ohio,  in  1824,  was  a  teacher  for  a  short  time,  admitted  to  the 
bar  in  1826,  started  the  Cleveland  Plaindealer  in  1829.  As  a  member  of  the  State  Senate 
he  took  a  prominent  part  in  school  legislation. 

—  Mount  Vernon,  etc.     12°,  pp.  184.     Boston,  1858. 


222  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

Rice,  (J.)     The  Battle  Fields  of  the  Revolution,     8°,  pp.   15.     Palmer,' 
Mass.,  1859. 

Rice,  (R.)      Orations  and  Poetry.      12°,  pp.  362.     Albany,  no  date. 

RiCHAUDS,  (G.)      The  Declaration  of  Independence,  by  a  Citizen  of  Bos- 
ton.    8°,  pp.  24.     Boston,  1793. 

Richards,  (AV.  C.) 

William  C.  Kicliards,  Tli.  D.,  was  born  at  London,  England,  in  181",  came  to  this 
country  in  1831,  was  a  graduate  of  Madison  University,  N.  Y.,  in  1848,  was  a  Baptist 
preacher  in  Georgia  and  South  Carolina,  and  in  Providence,  R.  1.  He  has  given  courses 
of  lectures  on  Chemistry,  and  been  a  frequent  contributor  to  the  periodicals  of  the  day. 
His  residence  is  now  (1880)  in  Chicago. 

—  Electron  ;  or,  The  Pranks  of  the  Modern  Puck.      12°,  pp.  84.     New 

York,  1858. 

—  Retrorsum  :    Madison   University  Alumni  School,   August   4,    1869. 

12°,  pp.  48.     New  York,  1869. 

RiCHARDSiANA.      (Anon.)     8°,  pp.  40.     New  York,  1841. 
Richmond,  (C.  R.) 

Cyrus  Richmond  Richmond  was  born  at  Maryland,  N.  Y.,  March  14,  1814,  removed  in 
1829  with  his  father,  a  Baptist  minister,  to  Rome,  Ohio,  was  ordained  in  1843,  and  was 
pastor  of  the  church  in  his  adopted  home  for  ten  years,  occupying,  for  a  part  of  the  time, 
offices  of  civil  trust.  After  ministering  to  several  churches  in  Ohio,  identifying  himself  in 
the  most  decided  way  with  the  great  reform  movements  of  the  day,  he  died  at  Geneva, 
Ohio,  December  19,  1885. 

—  Selections  from  Poetical  Writings.     12°,  pp.  43.     Privately  printed. 

Cambridge,  1886. 

Prefixed  to  the  Poem  is  a  MS.  Biographical  Sketch  of  Mr.  Richmond  prepared  by  Mr. 
R.  H.  Ferguson  of  the  Newton  Theoligical  Institution. 

RicoRD,  (Mrs.  Elizabeth.) 

She  was  born  in  178",  was  a  teacher  in  Genesee,  N.  Y.,  1828-48,  and  for  a  number  of 
years,  in  tlie  city  of  New  York,  where  she  died  in  1805. 

—  Zamba  ;  or.   The  Insurrection.     A  Dramatic  Poem.      12°,  pp.  139. 

Cambridge,  1842. 
Rider,  (G.  T.) 

George  Thomas  Rider  was  born  at  Coventry,  R.  I.,  in  1829,  graduated  at  Trinity  Col- 
lege, Hartford,  1850,  and  took  orders  in  the  Episcopal  church. 

—  Lyra  Americana.      12°,  pp.  x,  295.     New  York,  1865. 

—  "Now  and  Then."     A  Poem  Delivered   at  the   Junior   Exhibition, 

Trinity  College,  Hartford,  August  1,  1849.     8°,  pp.  8.     No  place. 

—  Reminiscences.     8°,  pp.  15.     Hartford,  1848. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  223 

Rifle  Shots  at  Past  and  Passing   Events.     (Anon.)     8°,  pp.   112. 
Philadelphia,  no  date. 

RiGGS,  (L.  G.)     The  Anarchiad.     Sq.  18°,  pp.  120.     New  Haven,  1861. 

Richmond,  (J.  C.) 

James  Cook  Richmond  was  born  at  Providence,  R.  I.,  in  1S08,  graduated  at  Harvard 
in  1828,  and  took  orders  in  the  Episcopal  Church.  After  preaching  several  years,  he  came 
to  an  untimely  end,  being  murdered  in  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y.,  in  1S66. 

—  Metacomet.     First  American,  from  the   London  Edition.      12°,  pp. 

47.     London,  New  York  and  Providence,  1851. 

—  The  Country  Schoolmaster  in  Love.     8°,  pp.  16.     New  York,  1845. 

Richmond,  (W.  E.)     Mount  Hope.     An  Evening  Excursion.      10°,  pp. 
69.     Providence,  1818. 

Rickey,  (Anna  S.) 

She  was  born  at  Philadelphia  in  1827,  and  in  1851  became  the  wife  of  an  eminent  civil 
engineer,  Solomon  W.  Roberts.    She  died  in  1858. 

—  Forest  Flowers  of  the  West.      12°,  pp.  138.     Philadelphia,  1851. 

RiNALDO  RiNALDiNi ;  OR,  The  Great  Banditti.    A  Tragedy.     (Anon.) 
18°,  pp.  82.     New  York,  1810. 

Ring,  (J.)     Book  of  Rhymes.     12°,  pp.  94.     Clinton,  1853. 

Ringgold,  (G.  H.,  U.  S.  A.)     Fountain  Rock,  etc.     New  York,   1860. 

RippON,  (J.,  D.  D.)     Hymns.     24°,  not  paged.     Baltimore,  1814. 

—  Same.     With  additions  by  Rev.  W.  Stoughton.     24°.     Philadelphia, 

1826. 

Ritchie,   (A.   T.)      The    Columbiad.      12°,  pp.   xi,   228.     New  York, 
1849. 

The  Columbiad  was  originally  published  in  London,  1843. 

Roach,  (Sallie  Neill.)      Theon.     A  Tale  of  the  American  Civil  War. 
12°,  pp.  220.     Philadelphia,  1882. 

Roath,  (D.  L.)     Zara.     A  Romance.      18°,  pp.  160.     Athens,  1851. 

RoBBiNS,    (J.  W.)     Progress.     Read   before    Roxbury  Mechanics  Listi- 
tute,  February  19,  1861.     No  place,  no  date. 

Robertson,  (J.)     Riego  ;  or.  The  Spanish  Martyr.     A  Tragedy.     12°, 
pp.  67.      Richmond,  Va.,  1872. 


224  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

Robertson,  (W.)      Sacred  Harmony.     18°,  pp.  36.     New  York,  1831. 

Roiuxs.     The  Christmas  Eve  (C.  E.  B.),  with  a  Translation  in  French 
Poetry,  by  J.  Gustave  Bonnet.     8°,  pp.  11.     New  York,  1869. 

RoBixsON,  (Anne  S.)     Poetic  Reveries.     8°,  pp.  171.     Baltimore,  1848. 

Robinson,    (J.   D.)     Poem.     Speech    and    Action.     Harvard,   July  11, 
1849.      16°,  pp.  15.     Cambridge,  1849. 

Robinson,  (J.  H.)     Nick  Whiffles.     A  Drama.     12°,  pp.  35.     Boston, 
1858. 

Robinson,  (T.  R.)     Poems.     12°,  pp.  140.     Brooklyn,  1808. 

Rodman,  (T.  P.)     Poem  before  New  Bedford  Mechanics'  Association, 
July  4,  1833.     8°,  pp.  15.     New  Bedford,  1833. 

Rodman,  (W.  M.) 

Mr.  Rodman  was  mayor  of  the  city  of  Providence,  R.  I.,  two  years,  June,  1857-59. 

—  Poem.     July  4,  1856.     8°,  pp.  18.     Providence,  1856. 

Rodney,  (R.  B.,  U.  S.  N.)      Alboin    and   Rosamond.       16°,  pp.    100. 
Philadelphia,  1870. 

—  Pay-Day  at  Babel,  etc.    'Sq.  18°,  pp.  65.     New  York,  1872. 

Rogers,  (D.)     A  Poem  on  Liberty.     8°,  pp.  29.     Albany,  1804. 

Rogers,  (G.)      George   Washington.     Crowned  by  Equality,  etc.      18°, 
pp.  36.     New  York,  1848. 

—  My  Adopted  Country.     In  Three  Parts.      12°,  pp.  74.     New  York, 

1851. 

Rogers,    (H.  G.)     The  Surrender  of  Creuta.      A  Tragedy.      12°,  pp. 
(with  Letters  from  Italy,  etc.,)  70.     New  York,  1857. 

Rogers,  (J.  W.)      "  La  fitte  ;"  or.  The  Greek  Slave.     In  Four  Cantos. 
8°,  pp.  61.     Boston,  London  and  Montreal,  1870. 

—  Washington  Pillory.     8°,  pp.  8.     No  place,  no  date. 

Rogers,  (R.) 

Robert  Rogers  was  born  at  Diinbarton,  N.  H.,  not  far  from  1730,  his  father,  James  R., 
an  Irishman,  being  an  early  settler  of  that  town.  During  the  Frencli  war  he  entered  the 
army,  having  command  of  what  was  known  as  "  Rogers'  Rangers."  In  1705,  while  in 
England,  he  received  an  appointment  from  the  King  as  Governor  of  Michilimackinac. 
After  various  fortunes  we  find  him,  in  the  war  of  the  Revolution,  a  Loyalist  Colonel  of  the 
Queen's  Rangers.    In  1778  he  was  proscribed  and  banished,  and  we  liave  no  Information 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  225 

Rogers,  (R.)  —  Continued. 

with  regard  to  his  subsequent  history.    His  "  Journals  "  and  "  Concise  Account  of  North 
America,"  have  been  highly  commended. 

—  Poiiteach  ;  or,  The  Savages  of  America.     A  Tragedy.     8°,  pp.  110. 
London, 1766. 

This  volume  was  published  ancnymoutly,  and  is  believed  to  be  very  rare.  Parkman, 
in  his  "  History  of  the  Conspiracy  of  Pontiac,"  says  :  "  I  am  not  aware  of  the  existence  of 
any  copy  besides  my  own  and  that  in  the  library  of  the  British  Museum." 

Romance  after  Marriage.     A  Comedy.      (Anon.)     12°,  pp.  28.    New 

York,  no  date. 
Root,  (G.  F.)     The  Flower  Queen.      12°,  pp.  93.     New  York,  1852. 

Rose,  (E.  M.  P.)      Poetry  of  Locofocoism.      18°,   pp.    48.     Wellsburg, 
Va.,  1848. 

Rose,  (R.  H.)      Sketches  in  Verse.     Lg.  8°,  pp.  viii,  184.     Philadelphia, 
1810. 

A  fine,  uncut,  and  very  rare  copy. 

Rouql'ette,  (A.  E.) 

Adrian  Emnianual  Ri  uquette,  of  mingled  European  and  American  parentage,  was 
born  at  New  Orleans  in  18^3,  and  received  his  education  at  the  Royal  College  in  Nantes, 
France.  It  was  his  purpose  to  enter  the  profess  "  -j  of  law,  and  he  studied  with  that  end 
in  view,  but  subsequently  decided  to  become  a  clergyman  in  the  Roman  Catholic  Church. 
Besides  performing  the  duties  of  his  office,  he  gave  instruction  in  the  Seminary  in  New- 
Orleans,  spending  a  part  of  his  time  at  his  residence  in  Mandeville,  in  the  parish  of  St. 
Tammany,  La.    Of  his  later  history  we  have  no  information. 

—  Wild  Flowers.     8°,  pp.  72.     New  Orleans,  1848. 

This  volume  "falls  in  the  rank  of  occasional  verses,  within  the  range  of  topics  growing 
out  of  the  peculiar  views  of  his  church,  and  shows  a  delicate  sensibility  in  the  choice  of 
subjects."  J 

RoiJX,  (A.  A.)      Louise  Neckar  French.     12°,  pp.  46.     New  York,  1850. 

Rover,  (R.)     The   Early  Settlers  in  the  West.     A  Poem.     8°,  pp.  32. 
Cleveland,  Ohio,  1859. 

Rowley,  (A.)     Ten  Chapters  of  the  Book  of  Job.     Translated  from  the 
Common  Version  into  Verse.     8°,  pp.  24.     Boston,  1825. 

RowsoN,  (Mrs.  S.) 

Susanna  Haswell  was  born  at  Portsmouth,  Eng.,  in  irtil,  and  settled,  with  her  father, 
Lieutenant  William  Haswell,  of  the  Royal  Navy,  on  the  island  of  Nantucket.  At  the  time 
of  the  Revolution  she  returned  to  England,  and  in  17S0  married  AVilliam  Rowson.  In  1793 
she  came  with  her  husband  to  the  United  States,  was  an  actress  for  a  time,  and  then 
a  teacher  near  Boston.    She  died  in  Boston,  March  2,  1824. 

—  Slaves  in  Algiers.     A  Play.     12°,  pp.  74.     Philadelphia,  1794. 


226  IIAKKIS    COLLECTION. 

RuDD,  (E.  B.)     Poem.     8°,  pp.  15.     New  York,  1861. 

Rude  Veins  vv  a  Poetic  Conformation.  12°,  pp.  179.  New  York, 
1845. 

The  author's  name  written  in  pencil,  W.  A.  Spies. 

RuFUS,  (W.)     Rufiana.      12°,  pp.  144.     New  York,  1826. 

RuNNELL,  (E.  B.)  The  Wreath  of  Love.  Vol.1.  18°,  pp.  164.  New 
York,  1852. 

Ruschenberger,    (Mrs.  .)      The  Bold  Scotch  Dragon.      A  Play. 

18°,  pp.  48.     Philadelphia,  no  date. 

Rush,  (J.,  M.  D.) 

James  Rush,  son  of  Dr.  Benjamin  Rusli,  was  born  at  Pliiladelphia,  March  1,  1785,  grad- 
uated at  Princeton  in  1805,  studied  medicine  and  practiced  his  profession  several  years. 
He  died  at  Philadelphia,  May  26,  1869.  He  bequeathed  over  a  million  of  dollars  to  the 
establishment  and  support  of  "  The  Kidgway  Branch  of  the  Philadelphia  Library." 

—  Hamlet.     A  Dramatic  Prelude.      12,  pp.  122.     Philadelphia,  1834. 
RuSHTABOW.      By  Sundown.      (Anon.)     8°,  pp.  33.     New  York,  1848. 

RUSLING,    (J.) 

Joseph  Rusling,  an  English  Methodist  minister,  was  born  in  Lincolnshire  in  1788,  and 
died  in  1830. 

—  Devotional  Exercises,  etc.      18°,  pp.  236.     Philadelphia,  1836. 

Russell,  (C.  P.)  In  Tenebris.  13th  Annual  Convention  of  the  Delta 
Psi  Fraternity,  Columbia,  S.  C,  December  6,  1859.  8°,  pp.  26. 
Columbia,  S.  C,  I860. 

Russell,  (J.  M.)     Fourth  of  July  Poems.     8°,  pp.  16.     Boston,  1798. 

Russell,  (S.)  Poems,  edited  by.  12°,  pp.  ix,  118.  Philadelphia, 
1859. 

Russian  Ball,  The  ;  or.  The  Adventures  of  Miss  Clementina 
Shoddy.     12°,  pp.  32.     New  York,  1863. 

Rustic  Rhymes.     (Anon.)      16°,  pp.  113.     Philadelphia,  1859. 

Ryder,  (G.  M.)     Gillian,  etc.      12°,  pp.  x,  106.     Philadelphia,  1658. 

Sacred  Melodies.      (Compiled.)      12°,  pp.  111.     New  York,  1841. 
Saddle,  In  the.     (Anon.)     18°,  pp.  185.     Boston,  1882. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  227 

St.  George,  (J.)  Leisure  Moments.  Containing  Corola,  etc.  16°,  pp. 
152.     Baltimore,  1840. 

St.  John,  (T.  P.)  Annus  Mirabilis.  Delivered  at  the  46th  Anniversary 
of  the  Philoxenian  Society,  Columbia  College.  8°,  pp.  15.  Pub- 
lished for  the  Society.     New  York,  1848. 

St.  Jonathan.  The  Lay  of  a  Scald.  (Anon.)  12°,  pp.  48.  New 
York,  1838. 

St.  Katharine's  Spire  ;  or,  The  Devil  at  Work  in  the  Church.     A 

Ritualistic  Melody  in  Four  Parts.     18°,  pp.  88.     New  York,  1872. 

St.  Nicholas,  A  Visit  from.     Darley's   Illustrations.     4°.     No  date. 
Saltds,  (F.  S.) 

Frank  S.  Saltiis,  a  journalist,  who  has  written  under  the  signature  of  "  Cupid  Jones." 

—  Honey  and  Gall.     Poems.      12°,  pp.  231.     Philadelphia,  1873. 
Sanborn,  (R.  S.)     Theism.     16°,  pp.  52.     Rockford,  111.,  1873. 
Sands,  (G.  W.)     Mazelli,  etc.     12°,  pp.  vi,  156.     Philadelphia,  1849. 

Sands,  (R.  C.) 

Robert  Charles  Sands  was  born  at  Flatbush,  L.  I.,  May  11,  1799,  graduated  at  Colum- 
bia College  in  1815,  was  admitted  to  the  New  York  bar  in  1820,  devoted  himself  to  literary 
pursuits,  and  was  assistant  editor  of  the  Xew  York  Commercial  Advertiser  five  years.  He 
died  December  17,  1S32.  His  Memoir  was  written  by  his  friend,  G.  C.  Verplanck.  2  vols. 
8°.    2d  Edition,  1835. 

—  The  Bridal  of  Vaumond.      16°,  pp.  186.     New  York,  1817. 

—  "Writings.     Prose   and  Verse.     2  vols.     pp.  391,  408.     New  York, 

1834. 

Sandys,  (G.) 

George  Sandys  was  born  at  York,  England,  in  1577,  educated  at  Oxford,  an  extensive 
Oriental  traveller,  in  1021  went  to  Virginia  as  Colonial  Treasurer,  returned  to  England  in 
1624,  and  engaged  in  literary  pursuits.    He  died  at  Bexley  Abbey,  Kent,  in  March,  1044. 

—  A  Paraphrase,  etc.     8°,  pp.  240.     London,  1676. 
Sangster,  (C.) 

A  journalist  born  in  Kingston,  Canada,  in  1822. 

—  The   St.  Lawrence,  etc.      12°,   pp.  262.     Kingston  and  New  York, 
1856. 
32 


228  IIARKIS    COLLECTION. 

Sangster,  (Makgaket  E.)      Poems  of  the   Houseliokl.      °8,  pp.   259. 
Boston,  1882. 

"  Many  of  these  bits  of  verse,  now  gathered  into  a  volume,  originally  appeared  in 
Harper's  Monthly  and  Bazar,  Christian  Jntelligcnccr,  Sunday  School  Times,  and  else, 
wliere." 

Santa  Claus  and  Jenny  Lind.      (Anon.)     Sq.  18°,  not  paged.     New- 
York,  1850. 

Sargent,  (E.) 

Epes  Sargent  was  born  at  Gloucester,  Mass,  in  1814,  was  educated  at  the  Boston  Latin 
School,  entered  Harvard  College,  but  did  not  complete  the  course,  devoted  himself  as 
author  and  editor  to  literary  i)ursuits.  Allibone  classifies  his  works  under  forty  distinct 
heads.    (See  Allibone's  Dictionary  of  Authors,  pp.  1931-32.) 

—  Songs  of  the  Sea.      12°,  pp.  208.     Boston,  1847. 

—  Same.     2a  Edition.      12°,  pp.  208.     Boston,  1849. 

—  The  Light  of  the  Light-House,  etc.     4°,  pp.  16.     New  York,  1844. 

—  The  Woman  who  Dared.      12°,  pp.  vi,  270.     Boston,  1870. 

—  Veksco.     A  Tragedy.     12°,  pp.  115.     Boston,  1837. 

—  Same.      New  York,  1839. 

Sargent,  (H.  J.) 

Henry  Jackson  Sargent,  known  as  "  Residuary  Legatee  of  the  late  '  Walter  Ano- 
nym,' "  was  born  at  Boston  in  1809.  He  entered  Harvard  College  in  1828,  but  did  not  grad- 
uate. The  productions  of  his  pen  were  published  in  several  magazines  and  periodicals  of 
the  day. 

—  Feathers  from  a  Moulting  Muse.      12°,  pp.  270.     Boston,  1854. 
Sargent,  (J.  O.) 

John  Osborne  Sargent  was  born  at  Gloucester,  Mass.,  in  1810,  graduated  at  Harvard 
in  1830,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  and  practiced  in  Boston,  New  York  and  Washington.  He 
has  been  engaged  in  journalism,  was  an  able  political  speaker,  and  has  written  a  number 
of  books  for  the  press. 

—  The  Last  Night.     A  Romance-Garhmd.     From  the  German  of  Anas- 

tasius  Griin.     12°,  pp.  ix,  200.     New  York,  1871. 

Sargent,  (L.  M.) 

Lucius  Manilas  Sargent  was  born  at  Boston,  1786,  entered  Harvard  in  1804,  did  not 
graduate,  but  in  1842  received  the  degree  of  A.  M.,  studied  law,  an  earnest  advocate  of  the 
temperance  cause,  and  the  writer  of  many  temperance  tales,  etc.  He  died  at  Roxbury, 
Mass.,  June  2,  1867. 

—  Coelii  Symposii  ^nigmata.      12°,  pp.  iv,  35.     Bostonia^,  1807. 

—  Hubert  and  Ellen,  with  other  Poems.     4°,  pp.  135.     Boston,  1812. 

—  Same.     24°,  pp.  96.     Boston,  1815. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  229 


Sargent,  (W.) 

Winthrop  Sargent  was  ,born  at  Philadelphia,  September  23,  1825,  graduated  at  the 
University  of  Pennsylvania  1845,  and  at  Cambridge  Law  School  1849,  practiced  in  his 
native  city  and  in  New  York.  He  was  an  able  editor  of  American  historical  works,  etc. 
He  died  at  Paris,  France,  May  18,  1870. 

—  Selections  of  the  Loyalist  Poetry  of  the  Revolution.     8°,  pp.  vii,  203. 
Philadelphia,  1857.  • 

The  copy  of  Sargent's  Loyalist  Poetry  in  "  The  Harris  Collection  "  is  richly  bound, 
with  gilt  upper  edges,  and  the  front  and  lower  edges  untrimmed.  It  is  No.  37  of  the  edition 
of  99  that  was  originally  published,  and  was  subscribed  for  by  Thomas  F.  Betton,  of  Phil- 
adelphia. The  preface  makes  the  statement  that  "  from  a  large  collection  of  the  Loyalist 
Poetry  of  the  American  Revolution  belonging  to  J.  Francis  Fisher  and  to  Wiiithrop  Sar- 
gent, of  Philadelphia,  this  selection  has  been  edited.  Much  of  it  has  heretofore  existed 
but  in  manuscript;  and  such  pieces  as  are  in  print  are  now  hardly  to  be  found  beyond  the 
confines  of  two  or  three  libraries.  For  this  reason  they  are  printed ;  and  because  they  are 
the  productions  of  a  very  important  party,  concerning  whose  conduct  and  motives  very 
little  is  known  save  by  the  report  of  its  foes  and  subjugators." 

The  volume  is  one  of  exceeding  great  interest,  and  to  those  who  would  enter  into  the 
spirit  of  the  Royalists  of  Revolutionary  times  it  is  of  the  highest  value.  Mr.  Sargent 
says  :  "  As  these  pieces  were  written  in  the  days  when  a  spade  was  called  a  spade,  they 
may  reasonably  be  expected  to  contain  more  than  one  '  strong,  old-fashioned  English  word 
familiar  to  all  who  read  their  Bibles ! '  " 

The  notes,  pp.  151-203,  are  full  of  the  sort  of  information  one  would  like  to  have  about 
the  men  and  events  of  the  stirring  times  of  which  they  treat.  The  editor  says:  "There 
is  now  no  probability  that  the  whole  record  of  the  Revolution  will  ever  be  displayed.  It 
is  said  that  the  English  government  once  thought  of  setting  forth  its  own  story,  and  that 
Robert  Southey  was  selected  to  prep.are  it  for  the  public;  but  that,  for  one  reason  or 
another,  the  idea  was  dropped,  never  probably  to  be  revived.  The  great  change  in  inter- 
national feeling  since  that  day  has  made  such  a  step  no  longer  advisable ;  and  the  fact  that 
the  Tories,  whose  numbers  and  circumstances  would  have  rendered  their  testimony  indis- 
pensable, have  died  and  made  no  sign,  in  itself  offers  an  almost  insuper.able  obstacle." 

Satan  Unbound.     A  Dramatic  Poem.      12°,  pp.  19.      (Anon.     In  pen- 
cil, "A  Marylander.")      No  place,  no  date. 

Satires.     American,  etc.     A   12°  volume.     The  following  make  up  the 
contents  of  the  volume  : 

1.  The  Paradise  of  Fools.     By  Nathan   Nobody,  Avith  Critique 

by  Simon  Snappingturtle,  Esq. 

2.  The  Quacks  of  Helicon.     By  L.  A.  Wilmer. 

3.  American  Bards.     By  Gorham  H.  Worth. 

4.  The  Dwarf.     By  James  Rees. 

5.  The  Hours  of  Childhood.      (Anon.) 

6.  Cabiro.     By  George  H.  Calvert.     Cantos  I  and  11. 

7.  Childe  Martin.      (Anon.) 

8.  Tlie  Loco's  Lament.      (Anon.) 


230  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

Satirks.  —  Continued. 

9.  The  "Wyoming  Monument.     Title-page  gone. 

10.  No  Slur,  Else  Slur.      A  Dancing  Poem.      By  Nobody. 

11.  Music  of  the  Spheres.      By  Henry  Morford. 

12.  Our  City  Clubs.     By  a  City  Poet. 

13.  The  Battle  of  the  Thames,  October  5,  1813.      (Anon.)       . 

14.  Humbugs  of  Speculation. 

Sator,  (H.  H.)      Hercules.     8°,  pp.  54.     Albany,  185G. 

Saunders,  (C.   H.)     Rosina   Meadows,  the  Village    Maid.     A  Drama. 
12°,  pp.  52.     Boston,  no  date. 

—  The  Pirate's  Legacy.     12°,  pp.  26.     Boston,  no  date. 

Saunders,    (J.   M.)     Miscellaneous   Poems.     18°,   pp.   144.     Philadel- 
phia,  1834. 

Savage,  (J.) 

John  Savage  was  born  at  Dub!!;;,  Ireland,  December  13,1828.  He  was  an  artist  of 
growing  celebrity  in  his  native  land.  H.aving  exposed  himself  to  the  displeasure  of  the 
Government  in  1848,  he  left  his  home  and  came  to  the  United  States,  and  has  been  engaged 
in  literary  pursuits.  He  took  an  active  part  in  the  civil  war  by  raising  Irish  volunteers. 
One  of  his  war  songs,  "  The  Starry  Flag,"  was  very  jiopular. 

—  Faith  and  Fancy.      12°,  pp.  118.     New  York,  18G4. 

—  Lays  of  the  Fatherland.      12°,  pp.  vi,  120.     New  York,  1850. 

—  Poems.     Second  Collected  Edition.     12°,  pp.  324.     New  York,  1870. 

Savage,  (M.  J.) 

A  Unitarian  clergyman  of  Boston. 

—  Poems.      16°,  pp.  247.     Boston,  1882. 
Sawyer,  (L.) 

Lemuel  Sawyer,  of  North  Carolina,  wrote  the  Memoirs  of  John  Randolph. 

—  Blackbeard.     A  Comedy.      16°,  pp.  66.     Washington,  1824. 

—  The  "Wreck  of  Honor.     A  Tragedy.      16°,  pp.  86.     New  York,  date 

torn  from  the  title-page. 

Sawyer,  (Mrs.  C.  M.) 

Caroline  M.  Fisher  was  born  at  Newton,  Mass.,  in  1812,  married,  in  1832,  Rev.  Dr.  T.  J. 
Sawyer,  an  eminent  Universalist  minister,  resided  in  New  York  City  and  in  Clinton, 
N.  Y.    She  has  been  a  frequent  contributor  to  various  periodicals. 

—  Poems  of  Mrs.  Julia  H.  Scott,  bound  with   Memoir.      12°,  pp.  328. 

Boston,   1853. 


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Saxe,  (J.  G.) 

John  Godfrey  Saxe  wns  born  at  Highgate,  Vt.,  June  2,  1816,  graduated  at  Middlebury 
College  1839,  commenced  the  practice  of  law  at  St.  Albans,  Vt.,  in  1843,  removed,  1850,  to 
Burlington,  Vt.,  and,  for  five  years,  edited  The  SentineL  As  a  lecturer  at  lyceums,  etc.,  he 
was  very  successful.  For  a  time  he  edited  the  Albany  Evening  Journal,  and  subsequently 
resided  in  Brooklyn. 

—  Clever  Stories,  etc.     Lg.  12°,  pp.  vi,  192.     Boston,  1865. 

—  Leisure  Day  Rhymes.     8°,  pp.  268.     Boston,  1875. 

—  Poems.      12°,  pp.  viii,  128.     Boston,  1850. 

—  Same.     2d  Edition.      12°,  pp.  140.     Boston,  1850. 

—  Same.     3d  Edition.      12°,  pp.  152.     Boston,  1851. 

—  Same.     New  Edition  enlarged.      12°,  pp.  182.     Boston,  1852. 

—  Same.     5th  Edition  enlarged.      12°,  pp.  192.     Boston,  1854. 

—  Same.     Complete  Edition.      18°,  pp.  308.     Boston,  1861.     Blue  and 

Gold  Series. 

—  Progress.     2d  Edition.     New  York,  1847. 

Several  other  poems,  referred  to  in  the  Catalogue,  bound  up  with  "  Progress." 

—  The   Flying   Dutchman.      With    16    Comic    Illustrations.      12°,  not 

paged.     New  York,  1862. 

—  The  Masquerade.      12°,  pp.  237.     Boston,  1866. 

—  The  Money  King,  etc.      12°,  pp.  180.     Boston,  1850. 

—  Same.     1860. 

—  The  Proud  Miss  Macbride.     With   Illustrations  by  A.  Hoppin.     8°, 

pp.  38.     Boston,  1874. 

Scales,  (AY.)      The    Quintessence  of  Universal   History.      8°,  pp.  22. 
No  place,  1806. 

SCANLAN,  (M.)     Love  and  Land.     8°,  pp.  vii,  262.     Chicago,  1866. 

AUibone  says  "  this  volume  is  intended  to  fan  the  spirit  of  Irish  animosity  to  England 
into  a  '  stronger  and  more  concentrated  flame.'  " 

SCHADD,   (J.   C.)      Nicholas   of  the   Flue.      12°,  pp.  144.     Washington, 
1866. 

School,  The,  for  Politicians  ;  or,  Non-Committal.     A  Comedy  in 
Five  Acts.     8°,  pp.  v,  179.     New  York,  1840. 

Schoolcraft,  (H.  R.)     (Colcraft,  pseud.) 

Henry  Rowe  Schoolcraft  was  born  at  Guilderland,  near  Albany,  March  28,  179.3,  and 
was  greatly  distinguished  as  genealogist,  mineralogist,  antiquary  and  ethnologist.  (See 
Johnson's  Encyclopaedia,  vol.  iv,  pp.  128-29.)    He  died  at  Washington,  December  10,  1864. 


232  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

Schoolcraft,  (II.  R.) — Continued. 

—  Alhalla  ;  or,   The   Land  of  Talladega.     A  Tale   of  the  Creek  War. 

16°,  pp.  116.     New  York  and  London,  1843. 

—  Heldorbcrgia.     8°,  pp.  54.     Albany,  1855. 

—  Transallegania  ;  or.   The  Groans  of  Missouri.      16°,   pp.  24.     New 

New  York,  1820. 

—  The  Rise  of  the  West.      12°,  pp.  20.     New  York,  1841. 

Science,  Progress  of.  The.  A  Poem  delivered  at  Harvard  College, 
before  a  Committee  of  Overseers,  April  21,  1780.  By  a  Junior 
Sophister.     4°,  pp.  10.     No  place,  1780. 

Scimitar.     By  the  Sharpe  Family.     Sm.  24°,  pp.  32.     Boston,  1840. 

Scott,  (J.,  D.  D.) 

James  Scott  was  born  at  Langside,  Scotland,  in  1806,  educated  at  Glasgow  and  Bel- 
fast, came  to  New  York  in  1832,  and  was  pastor  of  churches  at  Fox  Hill  and  German  Val- 
ley, N.  Y.,  and  of  the  First  Reformed  Dutch  Church,  Newark,  N.  J.  He  furnished  valuable 
contributions  to  the  literature  of  his  adopted  country. 

—  The  Guardian  Angel.      12°,  pp.  191.     New  York,  1859. 
Scott,  (J.  M.) 

A  native  of  Connecticut. 

—  Blue  Lights;   or.  The  Convention.     16°,  pp.  150.     New  York,  1817. 

—  The  Sorceress  ;  or,  Salem.      16°,  pp.  xii,  120.     Salem,  Mass.,  1817. 

Scott,  (Mrs.  Julia  H.) 

Julia  H.  Kinney  was  born  at  Shesequin,  Pa.,  in  1809,  married,  in  1835,  Mr.  David  L. 
Scott,  of  Towanda,  Pa.,  in  1842. 

—  Poems.      16°,  pp.  iv,  216.     Boston,  1843. 

Scott,  (M.  Y.)     Fatal  Jest.      16°,  pp.  142.     New  York,  1819. 

—  The  Deaf  and  Dumb.     8°,  pp.  23.     New  York,  1819. 

Scottish  Fiddle,   The   Lay   of.     (Supposed  to  be  written  by  Walter 
Scott,  Esq.)      18°,  pp.  262.     New  York,  1813. 

Scovell,  (T.  p.)     Poem  delivered  Jidy  6,  1836,  before  the  Senior  Class 
of  Yale.     8°,  pp.  10.     New  Haven,  1836. 

Scriptures,  Search  the.      (Anon.)     8°,  pp.  148.     San  Francisco,  1881. 

Sea   Captain,  The.      (By  the  author  of  "  The   Lady  of  Lyons.")     8S 
pp.  88.     New  York,  1839. 


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233 


Sea  Serpent,  The;  or,  Gloucester  Hoax.     12°,  pp.  34.     Charleston, 
1819. 

Sealy,  Celer,  (pseud.)     Echoes  from  the   Garrett.      16°,  pp.  xii,  132. 
Rochester,  N.  Y.,  1862. 

Searles,  (Mrs.  R.  A.)     Scraps  and  Poems.     16°,  pp.  82.     Cincinnati, 
1851. 


Waters   of   Saratoga.       16°,  pp.  108.     Ballston 


Sears,   (R.)      Mineral 
Spa,  1819. 

Searson,  (J.) 

John  Searson  was  born  in  Ireland,  not  far  from  1750,  was  educated  by  his  uncle,  a 
clergyman  of  the  Church  of  England,  came  to  this  country  and  took  up  his  residence  in 
Philadelphia,  where  he  engaged  in  mercantile  pursuits.  Before  leaving  Ireland  he  pub- 
lished two  volumes.  In  the  dedication  of  his  "  Mount  Vernon"  to  George  Washington,  he 
says  :  "  I  did  myself  the  honor  to  visit  your  Excellency  15th  May  last,  so  as  to  obtain  an 
adequate  idea  of  Mount  Vernon  ;  wishing  to  compose  a  poem  on  that  beautiful  seat,  which 
I  now  most  humbly  dedicate  to  your  Excellency."  Mr.  Searson  seems  to  regard  himself 
as  competent  to  carry  out  the  plan  which  he  has  proposed  to  himself.  In  the  preface  to  the 
readers  of  "  Mount  Vernon,"  he  alludes  to  t!ie  visit  referred  to,  which,  he  says,  he  made 
"  so  as  to  enable  me  to  make  an  exact  poetical  description  of  it.  I  am,"  he  adds, 
"  fond  of  vural,  descriptive  poetry,  and  have  endeavored  to  make  this  as  pleasing  and 
exact  as  p  ssible."  And,  lest  some  envious  critical  persons  might  call  in  question  his 
claims  to  the  regards  of  the  Am;.lcan  people,  he  gives  an  item  of  his  personal  experience. 
"  I  published,"  he  says,  "  a  rural,  romantic  and  descriptive  poem  on  Down-Hill,  the  seat 
of  the  Earl  of  Bristol,  Bishop  of  Londonderry,  in  Ireland,  for  which  the  gentlemen  of  that 
country  actually  gave  me  a  guinea  a  copy,  and  Sir  George  Hill,  from  Dublin,  gave  me  five 
guineas  in  the  city  of  Londonderry."  Unfortunately  for  our  estimate  of  the  intrinsic  value 
of  this  poem,  judged  by  the  generous  sum  paid  for  it,  he  tells  us  that  Sir  George  gave  him 
"  more,  I  am  assured,  as  feeling  from  my  having  seen  better  days  than  from  the  intrinsic 
value  of  it." 

—  Poems.     8°,  pp.  94.     Philadelphia,  1797. 

—  Mount  Vernon.     A  Poem,  etc.     8°,  pp.  85.     Philadelphia,  no  date. 

That  the  author  had  some  reasonable  ground  for  his  suspicions  about  the  real  value  of 
his  poetical  effusions,  is  judged  by  the  perusal  of  the  following  lines  on  the  first  page  of 
this  poem : 

"  'Tis  through  romantic  scenes  we  here  may  go 
Not  scar'd  with  fear  nor  frighten'd  with  a  foe; 
Mount  Vernon,  I  have  often  heard  of  thee, 
And  often  wish'd  thy  beauties  for  to  see. 
Pleas'd  to  the  last,  I  view  this  pleasant  seat. 
And  found  its  views  elegant  and  neat ; 
The  prospect  from  it  must  e'er  please  the  mind. 
When  elegant  Potowmack  here  we  find. 
From  right  to  left,  from  left  to  right  we  see, 
Th'  beauteous  Potowmack,  that  arm  of  the  sea. 
See  ships  and  vessels  passing  by  the  door, 


234  IIARIIIS    COLLECTION. 

Searson,  (J.)  —  Continued. 

Almost  cv'ry  day  and  every  hour. 

liuk't'd,  the  prospect  is  so  very  fine, 

Such  rural  scenes  must  e'er  the  thoughts  reflnc." 

The  other  pieces  in  the  volume,  of  which  there  are  several,  are  of  the  same  general 
style  and  merit  with  the  above. 

Seaweeds  from  the  Shores  of  Nantucket.     16°,  pp.  135.     Boston, 
1853. 

Secession.     A  Poem  by  an  East  Tennesseean.     12°,  pp.  64.     Philadel- 
phia, 1864. 

Sega,  (G.)     Componimenti  Poetici.     8°.     Filaddha,  1829. 
Seiss,  (J.  A.) 

Joseph  Augustus  Seiss,  D.  D.,  was  born  near  Emmittsburg,  Md.,  in  182.3,  and,  for  a 
time,  M'as  pastor  of  a  Lutheran  Church  in  Baltimore.  Subsequently  he  became  pastor  of 
St.  Jolin's  Church  in  I'hiladelphia,  where  he  now  (1886)  resides.  Dr.  Seiss  has  been  an 
able  and  voluminous  writer.  Allibone  enumerates  twenty  distinct  works  as  the  produc- 
tions of  his  pen.    His  review  and  editorial  articles  have  been  very  numerous. 

—  Recreation  Songs.     Lg.  12°,  pp.  37.     Philadelphia,  1878. 
Selby,  (C.) 

Charles  Selby  was  a  popular  actor  and  dramatist  of  London  who  died  in  1863. 

—  Boots  at  the  Swan.     A   Farce.     8°,  pp.  29.     New  Yoi'k  and  Balti- 

more, no  date. 

Selections  from  the  Best  Spanish   Poets.      (F.   J.  Vingist.)      12°, 
pp.  192.     New  York,  1856. 

Serpent,  The,   Satan,  and  False   Prophet,  the   Trinity  op  Evil. 

(Anon.)      8°,  pp.  20.     No  place,  no  date. 

Serulan,  (pseud.,  supposed  to  be  transposition  of  the  letters  in  Laurens.) 
Poems.     8°,  pp.  134.     Charleston,  1859. 

Seward,  (Anna.) 

Mies  Seward  was  born  at  Egan,  Derbyshire,  England,  in  1747.  She  resided  at  Litch- 
field, where  she  died,  March  25,  1809.  Sir  Walter  Scott  became  her  literary  executor,  and 
published,  3  vols.,  1810,  her  Poetical  Works  and  Correspondence. 

—  Monody  on  Major  Andre.     Fourth  American  Edition.      16°,  pp.  22. 

Boston,   1798. 

Seward,  (E.  S.)     Columbiad  Poems.     18°,  pp.  127.     Baltimore,  1840. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  235 

Sewell,  (J.) 

Jotham  Sewell,  a  Congregational  minister  of  Maine. 

—  Mode  of  Baptism.     8°,  pp.  7.     Augusta,  Me.,  no  date. 

Sewell,  (J.  M.) 

Jonathan  Mitchell  Sewell  was  born,  according  to  Allen  (see  Biographical  Diction- 
ary, p.  730),  at  York,  Me.,  in  1749,  and,  according  to  Duyckinck,  in  Salem,  Mass.,  in  1748. 
His  parents  dying  when  he  was  young,  he  was  adopted  by  his  uncle.  Chief  Justice  Sewell, 
of  Massachusetts.  Duyckinck  says  he  passed  through  Harvard,  but  his  name  does  not 
appear  in  the  General  Catalogue.  For  a  time  he  engaged  in  mercantile  pursuits,  and  then 
studied  law,  and  for  a  few  years  was  Register  of  Probate  for  Grafton  county,  N.  H. 
Subsequently  he  removed  to  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  where  he  died  March  29,  1808. 

The  poems  referred  to  below  were,  for  the  most  part,  the  productions  of  his  youth. 
They  are  paraphrases  of  Ossian,  patriotic  odes,  epilogues,  and  a  few  epigrams.  One  of 
his  songs,  "  War  and  Washington,"  was  composed  at  the  beginning  of  the  American 
Revolution,  and  was  very  popular.  Two  lines  of  his  from  the  "  Epilogue  to  Cato  "  are 
familiar.    With  a  slight  change  they  were  the  motto  of  Park  Benjamin's  Neio  World  : 

"  No  pent-up  Utica  contracts  your  powers, 
But  the  whole  boundless  continent  is  yours." 

•    —  Miscellaneous  Poems.     16°,  pp.  304.     Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  1801. 

Very  rare.    Two  copies. 

—  Verses,  etc.     24°,  pp.  5.     Boston,  1797. 
Sewell,  (S.) 

The  name  of  the  author  of  this  little  volume  is  given  in  pencil  as  Stephen  Sewell.  Of 
the  four  translations,  one  in  Greek  and  three  in  Latin,  we  give  a  few  lines  of  the  Twenty- 
Third  Psalm : 

"  Est  dominus  paster  mihi ;  nunquam  rebus  egebo  : 
Me  facit  et  viridi  lentum  procumbere  in  herba : 
Ad  placidas  deducit  aquas  cum  frigore  in  umbris." 

—  Carmina  Sacra.     Sq.  12°,  pp.  8.     Wigorniaj,  Mass.,  1789. 

Sexton,  Song  of.      Addressed  to  his    Shovel.      (Anon.)     pp.  4.     No 

date. 
Shad-Fishers.      By  the   "Pleasant   Bard."     12°,  pp.24.     Greenfield, 

Mass.,  1854. 

Shadow  of  the  Rock,  The,  etc     (Anon.)     Sq.  18°,  pp.  224.     New 
York,  1867. 

Shakers,   Some  Lines  in  Verse  About.     (Anon.)    8°,  pp.  56.     New 
York,  1846. 

Shanly,  (C.  0.)     The  Monkey  of  Porto  Bello.     8°,  pp.  6.     New  York, 
1867. 
33 


236  IIAREIS    COLLECTION. 

Sharswood,  (W.)     The  Betrothed  ;  or,  Love  in  Deatli.     A  Pky  in  Five 

Act?.     8°,  pp.  79.     Phikdelphia,  1865. 
Shatzel,  (J.)     The  Mexican,  etc.      16°,  pp.  124.     New  York,  1841. 
Shea,  (J.  A.) 

Born  at  Cork,  Ireland,  1802,  came  to  tins  country  in  1827,  was  editor  and  contributor 
of  magazines,  etc.,  until  his  deatli  in  New  York,  August  15,  1845.  This  volume  is  dedica- 
ted to  W.  C.  Bryant. 

—  Adolph,  etc.     8°,  pp.  viii,  168.     New  York,  1831. 

—  Cloutarf.      12°,   pp.  x,  138.     New  York,  1843. 

—  Poem.     Delivered  at  Suffield,  Conn.,  August  5,  1845.     12°,  pp.  13. 

New  York,  1845. 

—  Poems.     Collected  by  his  Son.      12°,  pp.  204.     New  York,  1846. 

—  Wild  Flo wei-s.     Parnassian.     18°,  pp.  72.     Washington,  1836. 

Shelly,  (A.  F.)     Ostrea.     12°,  pp.  72.     New  York,  1857. 
Shelton,  (F.  W.) 

Frederic  William  Shelton  was  born  at  Jamaica,  Long  Island,  not  far  from  the  year 
1814.  His  thither,  Nathan  Shelton,  was  a  highly  esteemed  physician  of  Jamaica.  The 
subject  of  this  sketch  graduated  at  the  College  of  New  Jersey  in  1834.  Being  inclined  to 
literary  pursuits,  rather  than  to  the  duties  of  professional  life,  he  spent  much  of  his  time 
for  a  few  years  in  his  home,  in  reading  and  writing  for  the  periodicals  of  the  day,  espe- 
cially the  "  Knickerbocker  Magazine."  In  1847  he  was  ordained  as  a  minister  of  the  Epis- 
copal church,  and  after  preaching  to  parishes  on  Long  Island,  in  1854,  became  Rector  of  a 
church  at  Montpelier.  His  life  as  a  clergyman  of  country  parishes  afforded  him  themes  for 
not  a  few  humorous  sketches  which  were  the  productions  of  his  busy  pen.  Among  his  works 
are  "  The  Rector  of  St.  Bardolph's ;  or.  Superannuated ;  "  "  Peeps  from  a  Belfry ;  or.  The 
Parish  Sketch  Book."  His  "Up  the  River,"  being  a  series  of  rural  sketches,  is  referred 
to  as  "  an  exceedingly  pleasant  book  in  its  tasteful,  truthful  observations  of  nature  and 
animal  life,  and  the  incidents  of  the  country,  interspersed  with  occasional  criticisms  of 
favorite  books,  and  invigorated  throughout  by  the  individual  humors  of  the  narrator."  Mr. 
Shelton  died  in  1881.  ^ 

—  The  TroUopiad  ;  or.  Travelling  Gentlemen  in   America.     A  Satire. 
12°,  pp.  151.     New  York,  1837. 

This  volume  was  published  anonymously  by  "  Nil  Admirari,"  and  was  dedicated  to 
Mrs.  Trollope.  "  It  is  in  rhyming  pentameter,  shrewdly  sarcastic,  and  liberally  garnished 
with  notes  preservative  of  the  memory  of  the  series  of  gentlemen  whose  hurried  tours  in 
America  and  flippant  descriptions  were  formerly  so  provocative  of  the  ire  of  native  wri- 
ters." 

Shbpard,  (I.  F.) 

Isaac  Fitzgerald  Shepard,  a  well-known  poet,  residing  in  Boston. 

—  Pebbles  from  Castalia.     8°,  pp.  x,  156.     Boston,  1840. 

Mr.  Shepard  dedicates  this  volume  "  To  the  Rev.  Hubbard  Winslow,"  his  pastor  and 
friend,  and,  at  the  time,  minister  of  the  Congregational  Church  in  Bowdoin  street,  Boston. 


AMEEICAN    POETRY.  237 

Shepard,  (I.  F.)  —  Continued. 

—  Poetry  of  Feeling,  etc.     Sm.  24°,  pp.  128.     Boston,  1844. 

The  author  aUudes  gratefully  to  the  reception  that  was  given  to  his  "  Pebbles  from 
Castalia."  He  says  that  "  of  more  than  fifty  reviews  and  notices  that  came  to  his  knowl- 
edge, one  alone,  and  that  in  his  own  city,  spoke  in  anything  like  discourteous  terms;  while 
many  of  them  were  filled  with  generous  praise." 

Shepard,  (Mrs.  D.  Ellen  G-oodman.)     Cut-Flowers.     Edited  by  J.  G. 
Holland.     12°,  pp.  168.     Springfield,  Mass.,  1854. 

Sheeleigh,  (M.) 

Matthias  Sheeleigh  was  born  at  Charlestown,  Chester  county,  Pa.,  December  29,  1821. 
He  is  of  German  descent,  of  the  fourth  generation  in  America,  the  name  originally  having 
been  Schillich.  His  studies  were  pursued  at  Gettysburg,  where  he  graduated  from  the 
College  and  Theological  Seminary,  and  was  ordained  to  the  ministry  in  the  Evangelical 
Lutheran  Church  in  1852.  His  pastorates  have  been  with  five  churches,  the  latter  of 
which,  in  Fort  Washington,  Pa.,  is  now  (18SG)  under  his  charge.  Dr.  Sheeleigh  has  writ- 
ten much  as  an  editor  for  the  periodical  press,  and  as  a  large  contributor,  in  both  prose 
and  poetry,  to  magazines,  etc.  He  has  now  (1886)  a  number  of  books  nearly  ready  for  the 
press,  among  which  are  a  volume  of  his  Sonnets,  more  than  four  hundred  in  number,  a 
collection  of  translations  of  "  Dies  Irae,"  and  a  similar  work  representing  Luther's  great 
hymn: 

"  Ein  feste  Burg,"  etc. 

—  A  Gettysburgiad  :    A  Jubilee  Poem.     Pronounced  at  the  Semi-Cen- 

tennial  Celebration  of  the  Lutheran  Theological  Seminary,  Gettys- 
burg, Pa.     Sm.  4°,  pp.  32.     Philadelphia,  1876. 

—  Hymns   (Original)  for   tlie  Seventh   Semi-Centennial  Jubilee  of  the 

Reformation.     1517-1867.     16°,  pp.  18.     Philadelphia,  1867. 

—  Luther  :  A  Song-Tribute  on  the  Four  Hundredth  Anniversary  of  his 

Birth.     Sm.  4°,  pp.  104.     Illustrated.     Philadelphia,  1883. 

—  Poem  for  the  Luther  Statue  Unveiling.     Read  on  the  occasion,  in  the 

Memorial  Lutheran  Church,  Washington,  D.  C,  May  20,  1884. 

Shillaber,  (B.  p.) 

Benjamin  Penhallow  Shillaber  was  born  at  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  in  1814,  became  a 
printer,  was  a  compositor  at  Demara,  Guiana,  1835-37,  and  in  the  office  of  the  Boston  Post 
1840-47.    His  "  sayings  of  Mrs.  Partington  "  have  given  him  a  world-wide  celebrity. 

—  Rhymes  with  Reason,  etc.     8°,  pp.  x,  336.      Boston,  1853. 

—  Wide-Swath.     Embracing  "  Lines   in  Pleasant  Places,"  etc.     (Mrs. 

Partington,  pseud.)     Popular  Edition.     12°,  pp.  305.     Cambridge, 

1882. 

Shipp,    (B.)      Fame,    and  other   Poems.      12°,   jjp.    212.     Philadelphia, 
1848. 

—  The  Progress  of  Freedom,  etc.     12°,  pp.  219.     New  York,  1852. 


238 


HARRIS    COLLECTION. 


Shippey,  (J.) 

Josiah  Shippey  was  born  near  New  Brunswick,  N.  J.,  February  1,  1778.  The  first  of 
Ills  ancestor.*  wlio  came  to  America  was  from  the  city  of  London.  His  fatlier,  Jolin  Ship- 
pey, suffered  much  during  tlie  Itevolutionary  war,  liis  liouse  liaving  been  Imrned  by  the 
Britisli  and  Hessians  after  they  liad  used  it  for  a  barrack.  The  subject  of  tliis  .sketch  was  a 
graduate  of  Columbia  College  in  HOC.  He  did  not  study  a  profession,  but  devoted  himself' 
through  life,  chiefly  to  mercantile  pursuits.  The  date  of  his  death  we  have  been  unable  to 
ascei'tain. 

—  Specimens.     8°,  pp.  238.     New  York,  1841. 

Shiras,   (C.  p.)      The  Eedemption  of  Labor.      8°,  pp.  v,  120.     Pitts- 
burg, Pa.,  1852. 

Shortfellow,    Henry    Wandsworth,    (pseud.)      The    Song  of  Drop 
O'Wather.      16°,  pp.  111.     London  and  New  York,  1856. 

A  parody  on  Longfellow's  "  Hiawatha." 

Shrimpton,  (Charles.)     The  Liebriate.     16°,  pp.  48.     Cincinnati,  1858. 
SiGOURNEY,  (Mrs.  L.  H.) 

Lydia  Howard  luntley  was  born  at  Norwich,  Conn.,  September  1, 1791.  She  showed, 
as  a  child,  remarkable  precocity,  being  able  to  read  readily  at  the  age  of  three  years,  and, 
when  seven,  writing  simple  verses.  Having  completed  her  school  education,  she  was 
engaged  in  teaching,  first  in  Norwich,  then  in  Hartford.  She  published  her  first  volume, 
«'  Moral  Pieces  in  Prose  and  Verso,"  in  1815.  In  ISUt  she  married  Mr.  Charles  Sigourney, 
a  merchant  of  Hartford,  and  resided  in  that  city  during  the  remainder  of  her  life.  She 
died  June  10,  1865.     (See  Allibone,  pp.  2100-01.) 

—  Pocahontas,  etc.     12°,  pp.  283.     New  York,  1841. 

—  Same.      12°,  pp.  308.      London,  1841. 

—  Poems.    12°,  pp.  228.     Boston,  1827. 

—  Same.      12°,  pp.  xi,  288.     Philadelphia,   1834. 

—  Same,     18°,  pp.  xii,  256.     New  York,  1841. 

—  Same.     Religious,  etc.      12°,  pp.  352.     London,  1841. 

—  Same.     Sm.  24°,  pp.  255.      Philadelphia,  1846. 

—  Same.     Sq.  16°,  pp.  254.     New  York,  1853. 

—  Poems  for  the  Sea.      12°,  pp.  152.     Hartford,  1850. 

—  Poetical   Works.     Edited  by  F.  W.   N.   Bayley.      18°,    pp.  x,  236. 

London,  1863. 

—  Poetry  for  Seamen.     12°,  pp.  63.     Boston,  1845. 

—  Scenes  in  My  Native  Land.     12°,  pp.  319.     Boston,  1845. 

—  Select  Poems.     4th  Edition.     12°,  pp.  324.     1843. 

—  Same.      With   Illustrations.       11th   p:dition.     8°,  pp.   338.     Phila- 

delphia, 1857. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  239 

SiGOURNEY,  (Mrs.  L.  H.)  —  Continued. 

—  The  Daily  Counsellor.     8°,  pp.  402.     Hartford,  1859. 

—  The  Weeping  Willow.      Sm.  24°,  pp.  128.     Hartford,  1852. 

—  Traits  of  the  Aborigines.      12°,  pp.  284.     Cambridge,  1822. 

—  Voices  of  Home.      12°,  pp.  152.     Hartford,  1852. 

—  Whisper  to  a  Bride.     2d  Edition.      16°,  pp.  80.     Hartford,  1850. 

Sill,  (E.  R.)      The  Hermitage,  etc.      16°,  pp.  152.     New  York,  1868. 

Silver  Wedding  Song,  The.     Testimonial  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  A.  Liv- 
ermore.  May  17,  1863.      (Anon.)     No  place,  no  date. 

Simmons,  (J.  F.)      The  Welded  Link,  etc.      12°.  pp.  264.     Philadelphia, 
1881. 

Simmons,   (J.  W.) 

James  Wright  Simmons  was  boru  in  Soutli  Carolina,  pursued  liis  studies  at  Harvard, 
but  did  not  graduate.    He  settled  in  one  of  the  Western  States. 

—  Blue  Beard;  or.  The   Marshal  of  France.     8°,  pp.  110.     Philadel- 

phia,  1822. 

—  The  Exile's  Return,  etc.      12°,  pp.  xi,  117.     Philadelphia,  1822. 

—  The  Greek  Girl.     12°,  pp.  142.     Boston,  1852. 

—  The  Maniac's  Confession,  etc.      12°,  pp.  96.     Philadelphia,  1821. 

SIMMS,  (W.  G.) 

William  Gilmore  Simnis  was  born  at  Charleston,  S.  C,  April  17,  ISOG,  and,  at  the  age 
of  twenty-one  "tvas  admitted  to  the  bar  of  his  native  State.  Abandoning  tlie  legal  profession, 
he  devoted  his  life  to  literary  pursuits,  and  became  one  of  the  most  popular  and  volumi- 
nous  writers  in  the  United  States.  A  very  full  account  of  the  productions  of  his  facile  pen 
may  be  found  in  Allibone,  pp.  2104-6.    He  died  in  June,  1870. 

—  Areytos  ;  or.  Songs  of  the  South.     12°,  pp.  vi,  108.  Charleston,  S.  C, 

1846. 

—  Atalantis.     8°,  pp.  80.  '  New  York,  1832. 

—  Same.     8°,  pp.  144.     New  York,  1848. 

—  Donna  Florida.      16°,  pp.  97.     Charleston,  1843. 

—  Early  Lays.     12°,  pp.  viii,  108.     Charleston,   1827. 

—  Egeria.      12°,  pp.  xii,  319.     Philadelphia,  1853. 

—  Grouped  Thoughts.      12°,  pp.  61.     Richmond,  Va.,  1845. 

—  Lyrical  and  other  Poems.      16°,  pp.  198.     Charleston,  1827. 

In  the  volume  is  a  newspaper  cutting  giving  an  extract  from  the  Richmond  Whig, 
March  2.3,  186.5.  "  The  elegant  country  seat  of  Mr.  Sinims,  '  Woodlawn,'  near  Midway,  was 
burned,  together  with  most  of  his  valuable  library.    Few  men  have  suffered  more  than  he 


240  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

SiMMS,  (W.  G.)  —  Continued. 

by  the  revolution.  His  stereotype  plates  in  the  hands  of  his  publishers,  confiscated;  his 
plantation  ruined;  liis  stock  driven  off;  his  house  burned  —  but  still  be  is  erect,  undis- 
mayed, and  confident  of  the  successful  issue  of  the  cause." 

A  paragraph  in  the  Augusta  Sentinel  says  that  when  the  Yankees  were  at  Midway, 
Generals  Howell,  Smith  and  Blair  placed  a  heavy  guard  over  the  residence  of  Mr.  Siinms 
and  preserved  it  from  pillage.  The  day  after  they  left,  a  negro  applied  the  torch  and  burned 
it  and  its  valuable  contents  to  the  ground. 

—  Norman  Maurice.     An  American  Drama.     Lg.  8°,  pp.  31.     Ricli- 

mond,  Va.,  1851. 

—  Same.     8°,  pp.  169.     Richmond,  1853. 

—  Poems  by  a  Collegian.     8°,  pp.  vi,  95.     Charlottesville,  Va.,  1833. 

The  authorship  of  this  volume  is  ascribed  to  Simms  simply  because  on  the  title-page 
some  one  has  written  in  pencil  the  name  "  Wm.  G.  Simms."  The  compiler  is  doubtful  on 
the  subject.  Xo  source  of  information  to  which  he  has  access  sets  it  down  as  the  produc- 
tion of  the  pen  of  the  distinguished  poet  of  the  South.  In  the  collected  Songs,  Ballads, 
etc.,  found  in  the  "  Areytos  "  of  Simms,  none  of  the  poems  in  this  volume  are  reproduced. 
They  are  said  to  ]iO  "  Poems  by  a  Collegian,"  but  we  are  not  aware  that  Simms  ever  was 
in  college  as  a  student.  The  author,  whoever  he  was,  says  ;'he  iias  been  desirous  to  leave 
among  those  who  have  taken  an  interest  in  his  welfare,  and  with  whom  he  has  been  in 
habits  of  daily  intercourse,  a  slight  memorial  of  himself,  ere  more  important  duties  urge 
their  claims  to  consideration."  He  adds :  "  Nearly  all  the  present  poems  were  written 
between  the  ages  of  sixteen  and  nineteen." 

—  Poems.     2  vols.     8°,  pp.  348,  360.     New  York,  1853. 

—  Sabbath   Lyrics  ;  or.  Songs    from    Scripture.     A   Christmas  Gift  of 

Love.     8°,  pp.  72.     Charleston,  1847. 

—  Southern  Passages  and  Pictures.     12°,  pp.  228.     New  York,  1839. 

—  The  Cassique  of  Accabee.     A.  Tale  of  Ashley  River,  etc.     Sq.  18°, 

pp.  112.     New  York,  1849. 

—  The  City  of  the  Silent.     A  Poem  delivered  at  the  Consecration  of 

Magnolia  Cemetery,  Charleston,  S.  C,  November  19,  1850.     8°, 
pp.  54.     Charleston,  1850. 

—  The  Vision  of  Cortes.     16°,  pp.  150.     Charleston,  1829. 

Simon,  (Mrs.)     Review  of  Modern  Genius.     12°,  pp.  116.     New  York, 
1823. 

SiNCLAIll,    (C.  B.) 

See  Mary  Forrest's  "  Women  of  the  South  Distinguished  in  Literature." 

—  Poems.     12°,  pp.  viii,  160.     Augusta,  Ga.,  1860. 

Sisters,  The  Orphan.     (Anon.     A  Catholic  Clergyman.)     12°,  pp.  18. 
Baltimore,  1862. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  241 

Sketches  for  the  Fair.      (Anon.)     8°,  pp.  17.     No  place,  no  date. 

Skinner,  (G.  W.)     JEns.     A  Poem.     12°,  pp.  47.     Boston,  1852. 

Skinner,  (J.,  M.  D.)  The  Revolutionary  War  in  Verse.  8°,  pp.  253. 
Bingliampton,  1829. 

Slavery,  Poems  ox.  (LongfelloAv,  Whittier,  Southey,  H.  B.  Stowe, 
etc.)  Dedicated  to  the  Rt.  Hon.  the  Earl  of  Shaftsbury.  16°, 
pp.  232.     London,  1853. 

Slavery,  The  Gospel  of.  A  Primer  of  Freedom.  (By  Iron  Gray, 
fseucl.)      18°,  not  paged.     New  York,  no  date. 

Slender,  Robert.  (A  pseud,  for  Philip  Freneau.)  A  Journey  from 
Philadelphia  to  New  York  by  way  of  Burlington  and  South  Amboy. 
Extracted  from  the  Author's  Journal.  12°,  pp.  28,  Philadelphia, 
1787. 

Sjiiles  and  Frowns,  etc.  (Anon.)  Sq.  16°,  pp.  128.  Philadelphia, 
1852. 

Smiley,   (Miss   .)     Poems.      (By  Matilda,  pseud.)      12°,   pp.   311. 

Richmond,  1851. 

Smith,  (A.)     Poems.     12°,  pp.  190.     Boston,  1853. 

Smith,  (A.  L.)  The  Romaunt  of  Lady  Helen  Clyde.  43  Stanzas.  Sq. 
12°,  not  paged.     New  York,  1882. 

Smith,  (Annie  R.)      Home  Here,  etc.      12°,  pp.  112.     Rochester,  1855. 

Sotth,  (B.)     Poems.     12°,  pp.  128.     Pittsburgh,  1842. 

Smith,  (C.) 

Charles  Smith  was  born  net  far  from  1768,  and,  for  a  time,  was  a  bookseller  in  the  city 
of  New  York.  Some  of  the  i)lays  of  Kotzebue  and  Schiller  were  translated  by  him.  He 
was  the  editor  of  "  The  Monthly  Military  Repository,"  New  Y'ork,  1790-97.  2  vols.  8^. 
Dr.  J.  VT.  Francis  says  that  the  Revolutionary  descriptions  "  were  supplied  by  Baron  Steu- 
ben and  General  Gates."    Mr.  Smith  died  in  1840. 

—  Abbe  de  L'Epee ;  or.  The  Orphan.     From  the  German  of  Kotzebue. 

8°,  pp.  42.     New  York,  1801. 

—  Sparks  from  a  Smith's  Forge.      12°,  pp.  71.      New  York,  1852. 

Smith,  (E.  D.)     Destiny.     8°,  pp.  27.     New  York,  1846. 

Smith,  (E.  H.)     Black  Hawk.     12°,  pp.  v,  299.     New  York,  1848. 


242  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

Smith,  (Eliiiu  H.) 

Elilui  Ilubbai'd  Smith  was  born  at  LitcIiticUl,  Conn.,  September  4, 1771,  and  graduated  at 
Yale  College  in  1780.  Being  but  fifteen  years  of  age  when  he  completed  his  academic  studies, 
he  was  regarded  by  his  father  as  being  too  young  to  enter  upon  a  course  of  professional 
study,  and  by  him  was  placed  under  the  charge  of  Kev.  Dr.  Dwight,  then  pastor  of  the 
Congregational  Church  at  Greenlield,  Mass.,  with  whom  he  remained  for  a  time,  and  then, 
under  the  tuition  of  liis  father,  who  was  a  j)hysician,  he  fitted  himself  for  the  practice  of 
medicine,  receiving  his  degree  from  tlie  Medical  School  of  Philadelphia.  He  took  up  his 
residence  in  New  York  in  17H3,  where  he  combined  literary  with  professional  pursuits.  In 
connection  with  two  other  physicians  he  was  a  party  to  the  establishment  of  the  "  New 
York  Medical  Repository." 

To  Dr.  Smith  is  to  be  ascribed  the  honor  of  editing  the  first  collection  of  American  poe- 
try  ever  made  in  this  country,  which  was  brought  out  in  1703.  This  collection  contains 
poems  by  Hopkins,  Humphrey,  Dwight,  Trumbull,  Barlow,  etc.  His  death  came  in  the 
way  of  the  discbarge  of  his  professional  duties.  New  York,  in  1798,  was  visited  by  the  yel- 
low fever.  One  of  his  patients,  a  young  Italian,  who  had  been  attacked  by  the  fever,  was 
removed  to  the  apartments  of  his  physician,  the  latter,  in  a  few  days,  succumbing  to  the 
infection,  and  both  dying,  the  event  in  the  case  of  Dr.  Smith  occurring  September  21, 1798. 

He  is  supposed  to  have  been  the  author  of  "  Andre,  a  Tragedy,"  which  was  performed 
in  New  York  in  1798. 

—  Edwin  and  Angelina.     8°.     New  York,  1797. 
Smith,  (Eliza  W.)     Myths  and  Idyls.     8°.     Boston,  1881. 
Smith,  (J.)     Divine  Hymns.      12°,  pp.  171.     Elizabeth-Town,  1810. 
Smith,  (Emeline  Sherman.) 

She  was  born  at  New  Baltimore,  near  New  York,  in  1823,  and  married  James  M.  Smith, 
a  New  York  lawyer.  "  Her  distinguishing  characteristics  are  a  religious  delight  in  nature, 
and  a  contentment  with  Iiome  affections  and  pleasures,  which,  in  one  form  or  another,  are 
the  material  of  the  finest  poetry  of  women." 

—  Poems  and  Ballads.     8°,  pp.  336.     New  York,  1859. 

—  The  Fairy's  Search.     Sm.  24°,  pp.  124.     New  York,  1847. 

Smith,  (Mrs.  E.  O.) 

Elizabeth  Oakes  Prince  was  born  at  North  Yarmouth,  Me.,  August  12,  1806,  and  from 
infancy  resided  in  Portland,  where,  at  an  early  age,  she  married  Seba  Smith,  the  famous 
"  Jack  Downing,"  whose  letters,  couched  in  Yankee  phraseology,  procured  for  him  a 
world-wide  renown.  He  also  wrote  "  Powhatan,  a  Metrical  Romance,"  in  Seven  Cantosi 
which  was  published  in  1841.  He  wrote  also  other  works,  and  was  a  generous  contributor 
to  the  periodical  literature  of  the  day. 

The  earliest  poems  of  Mrs.  Smith  were  written  anonymously.  Her  husband  becoming 
involved  in  business  troubles  growing  out  of  what  is  known  as  the  "  Eastern  Land  Specu- 
lations," Mrs.  Smith  resorted  to  her  pen  to  procure  the  means  of  support  for  her  family. 
In  1842  she  took  up  her  residence  in  New  York,  and  entered  at  once  upon  what  proved  to 
be  a  career  of  literary  success.  Subsequently  she  removed  to  Hollywood,  Carteret  county, 
N.C. 

—  Old  New  York  ;  or.  Democracy  in  1689.      12°,  pp.  65.     New  York, 

1853. 


AMEKICAN    POETRY.  243 

Smith,  (Mrs.  E.  0.)  —  Continued. 

—  Poetical  Writings.      32°,   pp.    204.     Second    Edition.     New  York, 

1846. 

—  The  Lover's  Gift.     Sm.  24°,  pp.  x,  128.     Hartford,  1848. 

—  The  Sinless  Child,  etc.      12°,  pp.  xxxiv,  177.     New  York  and  Bos- 

ton, 1843. 

This  poem  was  first  published  in  the  "  Southern  Literary  Messenger," in  1842.  In  this 
edition  is  an  address  "  To  the  Reader  "  by  the  editor,  John  Keese,  pp.  vii-xii,  a  character- 
istic slvetch  of  Mrs.  Smitli  by  John  Neal,  pp.  xv-xxxiv,  and  an  analysis  of  Mrs.  Smith's 
genius  and  character,  by  H.  H.  Tuckermau. 

Smith,  (J.  H.)     The  Latter  Day's  Intelligencer.     1G°,  pp.  vi,  144.     St. 
Clairsville,  Ohio,  1847. 

Smith,  (J.  S.,  M.  D.) 

Dr.  James  S.  Smith,  a  brother  of  William  Smith,  author  of  "  The  History  of  the  Prov- 
ince of  New  York  from  its  first  Discovery,"  etc.,  was  born  some  time  previous  to  1760, 
graduated  at  Leyden,  and  died  at  an  advanced  age  in  New  York  in  1812. 

—  The   Mirror  of  Merit  and   Beauty.     Sm.  16°,   pp.  79.     New  York, 

1808. 

Smith,  (J.  S.)      The  Siege  of  Algiers.     A  Tragi-Comedy.     8°,  pp.  140. 
Philadelphia,  1823. 

The  writer,  Jonathan  S.  Smith,  says  :  "  In  this  drama  will  be  strongly  exemplified  the 
great  contrast  between  the  government,  customs  and  manners  of  unlettered  despotism, 
and  those  of  the  more  free  and  enlightened  nations,  and  one  scene  herein  will  also  enable 
the  female  part  of  the  latter  to  form  a  just  estimate  between  their  own  happy  condition  in 
life,  and  the  truly  miserable  and  circumscribed  state  of  those  unfortunate  women  of  the 
former,  doomed  to  drag  out  a  debased  existence  under  the  jealous  eye  of  a  bearded 
tyrant ! " 

Smith,  (Mrs.  Pogson.)      The  Arabians.     18°,   pp.  viii,  56.     Philadel- 
phia,  1844. 
Smith,  (R.  P.) 

Richard  Penn  Smith  was  born  at  Philadelphia  in  1799,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
1821,  was  editor  of  "The  Aurora,"  1822-27,  and  wrote  "  Forsaken,"  a  novel,  in  two  volumes. 
Fifteen  of  his  plays  were  produced  on  the  Philadelphia  stage.  One  of  these  was  Cains 
Marius,  written  lor  Edwin  Forrest,  and  acted  by  him.  He  wrote  several  Comedies  and 
Farces.    His  death  occurred  in  1854. 

—  Poems.     Miscellaneous  Works   Collected  by  his   son,  H.  W.  Smith. 

8°,  pp.  137.     Philadelphia,  1856. 

—  The  Deformed.     A  Play.      12°,  pp.  87.     Philadelphia,  1830. 

—  The  Disowned.     A  Play.      12°,  pp.  67.     Philadelphia,  1830. 

—  The  Eighth  of  January.      16°,  pp.  iv,  54.     Philadelphia,  1829. 

34 


244  HAEKIS    COLLECTION. 

Smith,  (S.) 

Seba  Smitli  was  born  in  1792,  at  Buckfleld,  Mo.,  the  place  of  his  birth  being  a  log- 
houtie  wliicli  liad  been  erected  by  his  fatlier  in  tlie  woods  of  lliat  town.  In  180;i  his  family 
removed  to  ISridgton,  Me.  The  boy's  life  was  one  of  constant  activity,  either  on  a  farm,  or 
in  a  grocery  or  brick  yard  or  iron  foundry.  He  fitted  himself  for  college  chiefly  by  his  own 
endeavors,  and  graduated  at  IJowdoin  with  the  highest  honors  of  his  class  in  1818.  Among 
his  classmates  were  Uev.  Dr.  Kufus  Anderson,  for  so  many  years  the  able  Secretary  of  the 
American  Board  of  Commissioners  for  Foreign  Missions,  Kev.  Dr.  Benjamin  Hale,  Presi- 
dent of  Geneva,  or  Ilobart  Free  College,  in  Western  New  York,  and  Gideon  Lane  Sowle, 
LL.  D.,  lor  several  years  Principal  of  Exeter  riiillips  Academy.  After  graduation  Mr. 
Smith  spent  sometime  in  teaching,  travelling  at  home  and  abroad,  and  then  for  four  years 
was  connected,  as  assistant  editor  and  joint  proprietor,  of  the  Eastern  Argus,  Portland. 
For  seven  years,  1830-37,  he  had  the  management  of  the  Portland  Daily  Courier.  "  Much 
of  its  success  was  due  to  the  "  Downing  "  letters.  Tlie  ability,  the  good  sense,  the  gen- 
uine humor,  and  more  than  all  the  unmitigated  Yankeeisms  of  the  kind-hearted  "  Major" 
soon  made  him  popular,  and  his  effusions  appeared  in  all  the  papers.  These  were 
sought  with  avidity  and  read  by  everybody.  During  a  period  of  intense  political  strife 
the  "Downing"  letters,  with  their  good-natured  satire  and  admirable  irony,  furnished 
matter  that  both  sides  could  laugh  at,  and  this  did  much  to  allay  the  bitterness  of  party." 
Allusion  has  been  made  in  the  sketch  of  Mrs.  Elizabeth  O.  Smith  to  the  pecuniary 
embarrassments  of  her  husband.  He  became,  on  removing  to  New  York,  a  large  contrib- 
utor to  various  periodicals,  etc.,  and  in  1857  took  the  editorial  charge  of  "  Putnam's 
Monthly."    After  a  life  of  great  literary  activity  he  died  at  Patchogue,  L.  I.,  July  28,  1868. 

—  Powhatan.     A   Metrical  Romance  in  Seven  Cantos.     12°,  pp.  198. 
New  York,  1841. 

Poe,  in  his  "  Literati,"  speaks  disparingly  of  this  poem. 

Smith,  (S.  F.) 

Samuel  Francis  Smith  was  born  at  Boston,  October  21,  1808,  graduated  at  Harvard 
1829,  pursued  his  theological  studies  at  Andover,  and  was  the  pastor  of  the  Baptist  Church 
in  Waterville,  Me.,  1834-42,  and  in  Newton,  Mass.,  1842-64.  He  was,  for  a  time,  editor  of 
the  "Baptist  Missionary  Magazine,"  and  contributed  to  Dr.  Lieber's  "Encyclopsedia 
Americana."  As  the  author  of  the  National  Hymn,  "  My  Country,  'tis  of  Thee,"  and  the 
Missionary  Hymn,  "The  Morning  Light  is  Breaking,"  he  has  a  world-wide  reputation. 
His  present  (1886)  residence  is  Newton,  Mass. 

—  Juvenile  Lyre.     Hymns,  etc.,  for  Schools.     8°,  pp.  vi,  72.      Boston, 

1835. 
Smith,  (S.  J.) 

Samuel  J.  Smith,  a  grandson  of  Samuel  Smith,  the  historian  of  New  Jersey,  was  born 
in  1771.  Most  of  his  life  was  passed  at  the  ancestral  home  near  Burlington,  N.  J.  He 
died  in  1835. 

—  Miscellaneous  Writings.     Prose   and  Poetry.     8°,  pp.  222.     Phila- 

delphia and  Boston,  1836. 

Smith,  (S.  Louisa  P.)     Poems.     8°,  pp.  250.     Providence,  1829. 
Smith,  (W.  M.) 

"William  Moore  Smith,  the  eldest  son  of  Rev.  Dr.  Smith,  first  Provost  of  the  Philadel. 
phia  College,  was  born  June  1,  1759,  and  was  an  eminent  lawyer.  He  died  March  12, 1821- 
(See  Catalogue  of  Philadelplwa  Library,  vol.  2,  p.  479.) 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  245. 

Smith,  (W.  M.)  —  Continued. 

—  Poems.     Sm.  12°,  pp.  141.     Philadelphia,  1786. 

—  Poems  on   Several  Occasions.     Written  in  Pennsylvania.      12°,  pp. 

16.     Boston,  1779. 

Smith,  (W.  R.) 

William  Russell  Smith  was  born  in  Alabama  about  the  year  1813,  was  educated  at  the 
University  of  Alabama,  practiced  law  at  Greensboro,  was  an  army  ofBcer  in  the  Creeks' 
war,  1836,  established  the  Tuscaloosa  Monitor  in  1838,  held  offices  of  civil  trust,  was 
opposed  to  secession,  but  was  a  member  of  the  Confederate  Congress  1801-65.  Subse- 
quently he  became  President  of  the  State  University. 

—  Diomede.     From  the  Iliad  of  Homer.     Lg.  8°,  j^p.  v,  52.     New  York 

and  London,  1869. 

—  The  Uses  of  Solitude.     4°,  pp.  64.     Montgomery,  Alabama,  1860. 

Smucker,  (S.  S.)     The   Spanish  Wife.     8°,  pp.  96.     New  York,  1854. 

Sneak,  Ye,  Yclepid  Copperhead.  (Anon.)  18°,  pp.  30.  Philadel- 
phia, 1863. 

Snelling,  (W.  J.) 

William  Joseph  Snelling  was  born  at  Boston,  December  26,  1804,  was  a  Cadet  at  West 
Point,  made  his  appearance  as  a  writer  about  18v;S,  and  contributed  articles  to  the  maga- 
zines, etc.,  of  the  day,  and  for  a  time  was  editor  of  the  Boston  Herald.  He  died  at  Chel- 
sea, JIass.,  December  24,  1848. 

—  Truth.      18°,  pp.  vi,  52.     Boston,  1831. 

—  Same.     18°,  pp.  v,  72.     Boston,  1832. 

Snider,  (D.  J.)     Clarence.     A  Drama.     8°,  pp.  45.     St.  Louis,  1872. 

Society  Without  Veil.     (Anon.)      12°,  pp.  218.     New  York,  1851. 

Soldier's,  The,  Armor  of  Strength.  Devotional  Exercises,  etc.,  for 
Soldiers  in  the  Civil  War.  (Anon.  P.  J.  at  the  end  of  the  Pref- 
ace.)     12°,  pp.  96.     Brooklyn,  1863. 

Solitary  Musings.     (Anon.)     8°,  pp.  18.     No  place,  1825. 

SoMERBY,  (W.  F.)      Sabbath  in  the  City.      12°,  pp.  208.     Boston,  1854, 

Sommershall,  or  Sommersall,  (J.)  Poems.  12°,  pp.  51.  Savan- 
nah, 1853. 

Somerville,  (J.  S.)  Plume  of  the  Classics,  etc.  16°,  pp.  60.  Wash- 
ington, 1820. 


246  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 


Song  Books. 

The  compiler  cannot  speak  with  absolute  certainty  on  the  subject,  and  will  be  glad  to 
be  corrected  if  he  is  mistaken,  but  he  thinks  that  in  the  number  and  the  variety  of  Song 
Hooks  by  American  writers  the  "  Harris  Collection  "  is  without  a  rival.  Mr.  Harris  seems 
to  have  had  almost  a  passion  for  collecting  books  and  pamphlets  which  may  be  classed 
under  this  head. 

The  College  Song  Hooks  all  date  back  to  a  period  comparatively  recent,  indicating 
that  this  is  a  sort  of  literature  that  has  sprung  up  in  modern  times.  Outside  of  a  certain 
and  quite  limited  range,  these  college  songs  will  awaken  but  little  interest.  Within  that 
range,  however,  they  will  be  associated  in  the  memory  of  college  graduates  with  some  of 
the  most  cheery  and  happy  hours  of  their  student  life.  Especially  will  this  be  true  of  the 
Song  Books  of  the  Secret  Societies.  IMany  of  tliem  contain  allusions,  catch  words,  etc., 
profoundly  mysterious  to  the  uninitiated,  but  very  suggestive  to  those  who  have  sung 
them  in  unison,  with  well-remembered  voices,  whose  harmony  still  lingers  in  the  ear.  It 
has  been  most  truthfully  said  :  "  There  is  probably  no  more  justly  popular  music  than  col- 
lege songs  when  sung  in  chorus;  not  because  of  being  artistic  in  composition  or  rendition, 
but  because  of  their  cheer,  and  the  fond  recollections  they  awaken  in  so  many  a  mind." 
In  the  "  Harris  Collection,"  as  will  be  noticed,  there  are  some  twenty  volumes  of  these 
College  Song  Books. 

—  American  College  Song  Book,  The.     Lg.  8°.     Chicago,  1882. 

The  origin  of  the  American  College  Song  Book  is  thus  stated  by  the  compiler : 
"The  songs  sung  by  the  boys  of  thirty  years  since  are  still  familiar  to  the  boys  of 
to-day;  partly  because  of  their  real  merit,  and  also  because  for  some  unknown  reason,  no 
one  has  taken  upon  himself  the  task  of  producing  something  fresh  and  more  properly  char- 
acteristic of  the  present."  To  supply  what  was  supposed  to  be  a  want  in  the  direction 
alluded  to,  tifty  of  the  leading  colleges  and  universities  of  the  United  States  were  each 
invited  to  contribute  four  of  her  best  songs,  original,  as  far  as  possible,  for  such  purposes. 
With  very  few  exceptions,  the  invitation  was  responded  to  by  the  colleges,  and  the  result 
is  the  following  compilation  of  nearly  two  hundred  and  fifty  songs,  "  most  of  them  entirely 
new,  yet  including  some  of  the  old,  old  songs,  which,  having  been  sung  by  thousands  of 
college  boys,  belong  among  college  traditions,  and  will  probably  remain  favorites  for  years 
to  come."  The  compiler  expresses  his  special  thanks  to  Mr.  Edgar  O.  Silver,  of  Brown 
University,  for  the  valuable  assistance  he  has  rendered  him  in  his  work. 

—  Biennial  Song.s  of  Sixty-Six.     Williams.     8°.     Troy,  no  date, 

—  Same.     Sixty-Seven.     Williams.     8°.     Troy,  no  date.  -^ 

—  Brown  University,  Jmie  12th.     Ode  for  Class  of  1856.     16°.     Prov- 

idence, no  date. 

—  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  Songs.     8°.     Providence,  no  date. 

—  [Jenckes,  (T.  A.)]     Song  [sung  in   Commons  Hall,  Brown  Univer- 

sity.    8°.     Providence,  1842.] 

—  Sans  Souci  Songs.      12°.     New  York,  1859. 

—  Songs   and  Toasts  for  the   Hamilton  Junior  Exhibition  Supper.     8°. 

Utica,  1868. 

—  Songs  for  Sophomore   Supper,   Class   of  1860,  Dartmouth  College, 

July  23,  1858.     Lg.  8°.     No  place,  no  date. 


AMERICAN    POETRY 


247 


New  Haven,  1855. 


12°.     New  York, 


Song  Books — Continued. 

—  Songs  of  Ali^ha  Delta  Phi.      12= 

—  Same.      12°.     New  York,  1859. 

—  Same.     12°.      Albany,   1864. 

—  Songs  of  the   College  of  the  City  of  New  York. 

1866. 

—  Songs  of  the  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon.      12°.     New  Haven,  1857. 

—  Songs  of  the  Delta  Kappa.     By  the  Class  of '65.     12°.     New  Haven, 

1862. 

12°.     New  York,  1857. 
8°.     Boston,  1861. 
^°.     Watertown,  N. 
New  York,  1859. 


—  Songs  of  the  Psi  Upsilon. 

—  Songs  of  the  Sigma  Phi. 

—  Songs  (The)  of  Union. 

—  Songs  of  Williams.     8°. 

—  Songs  of  Yale.     8°.     New  Haven,  1853. 

—  Same.     8°.     New  Haven,  1855. 

—  Waite,  (H.  R.)     Carmina  CoUegensia, 


1865. 


Lg.8°.     Boston,  1868. 


Every  college  in  the  United  States  was  solicited  to  contribute  its  soniM  to  this  collec- 
tion, and  nearly  all  having  songs  are  represented  in  the  above.  Nearly  one  thousand 
songs  were  sent  to  the  compiler  from  which  to  make  his  selection.  The  arrangement  of 
the  music  was  under  the  supervision  of  J.  C.  Johnson,  of  Boston.  Much  interesting  and 
useful  information  concerning  twenty-one  of  the  universities  and  colleges  where  songs  are 
here  represented  is  found  in  an  Appeadix  to  the  volume.  The  distinctive  colors  of  four- 
teen of  the  colleges  are  as  follows  : 


1.  Harvard Red. 

2.  Yale .  Blue. 

3.  Brown Brown. 

4.  Dartmouth     ....  Green. 

5.  Williams Purple. 

0.  Bowdoin White. 

7.  Union Magenta. 

8.  Hamilton Orange. 


9.  Amherst ....  Purple  and  White. 

10.  Wesleyan    .    .    .  Lavender. 

11.  University  of  New 

York  ....  Violet. 

12.  Western  Reserve  Bismark  and  Purple. 

13.  Micliigan     .    .    .  Azure  Blue  and  Maize. 

14.  Rochester    .    .    .  Magenta  and  White. 


Song  Books,  (Martial,  Naval  and  Patriotic.) 

The  great  war  crises  in  the  history  of  the  country  have  given  occasion  to  the  production 
of  a  large  number  of  patriotic  songs.  These  have  done  their  part  in  awakening  and  inten- 
sifying the  heroic  spirit.  They  have  been  sung  around  camp  fires,  on  the  decks  and  in  the 
forecastles  of  ships,  in  hospitals,  and  around  the  domestic  hearth.  Who  can  compute  the 
influence  of  such  songs  as  "Hail  Columbia,"  "The  Star  Spangled  Banner,"  and  "My 
Country, 'tis  of  Thee "  ?  Edward  Gillespy,  in  his  preface  to  "The  Columl)ian  Naval 
Songster,"  justly  remarks  :  "  The  achievements  of  ancient  heroes  owe  their  transmission 
to  posterity  more  to  the  celebration  of  the  poet  than  to  the  pen  of  the  historian."  He 
adds  :  "  Feeling  an  ardent  and  patriotic  desire  that  none  of  the  elegant  poetic  composi- 
tions on  the  tive  glorious  naval  victories  obtained  by  American  valor  over  a  portion  of  the 
boasted  navy  of  Great  Britain,  hitherto  considered  invincible,  the  following  collection  was 


248  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

Song  Books,  (Martial,  Naval  and  Patkiotic.)  —  Continued. 

commenced  Irom  the  first  that  appeared  after  tlie  destruction  of  the  Guerriere,  preserving 
none  but  such  as  possessed  real  merit  either  in  the  beauty  of  tlie  composition  or  the  pure 
patriotic  sentiments  wliicli  tliey  express." 

—  American  Muse,  The.      18°.     New  York,  1814. 

—  American  Songster,  The.     32°.     New  York,  no  date. 

—  American  Songster,  The  New.      18°.     Phihidelphia,  1817. 

—  American  Star,  The.     2d  Edition.      18°.     Richmond,  1817. 

—  American  Naval  and  Patriotic  Songster,  The.     32°.     Baltimore,  1831. 

—  Same.      18°.     New  York,  1840. 

—  American  Song  Book,      18°.     Philadelphia,  1813. 

—  Banner  of  Freedom,  The.      (See  Page,  A.) 

—  Bird  of  Birds,  The.      18°.     New  York,  1818. 

—  Blackbird,  The.      12°.     New  York,  1823. 

—  Book,  The,  of  American  Songs.      (See  Paul,  H.) 

—  Canary  Bird,  The.      18°.     Philadelphia,  1830. 

—  Columbian  Harmonist,  The.      18°.     Albany,  1815. 

—  Columbia  Naval  Melody.      12°.     Boston,  1813. 

—  Columbian  Naval  Songster,  The.      (See  Gillespy,  E.) 

—  Columbia's  Naval  Triumph.      18°.     New  York,  1813. 

—  Columbian  Songster,  The.      12°.     Wrentham,  Mass.,  1799. 

—  Same.     18°.     Baltimore,  1812. 

—  Eagle  and  Harp,  The.      12°.     Baltimore,  1812. 

—  Every-Day  Song  Book,  The.     32°.     New  York,  no  date. 

—  General  Armstrong.     American  Independence.     Royal  Sport.    Sweet 

William.      16°.     No  place,  about  1812. 

—  Gillespy,  (E.)     Columbian  Naval  Songster.     12°.     New  York,  1813. 

—  Household  Song  Book,  The.     32°.     New  York,  no  date. 

—  Humming  Bird,  The.      18°.     Baltimore,  1809. 

—  Hymn  Book.     32°.     New  York,  1861. 

—  Hymns,    Religious    and    Patriotic,    for    Sailors  and    Soldiers.     24°. 

Boston,  1861. 

—  McCarty,  (W.)     National  Songs,  etc.,  relating  to  the  War  of  1846. 

18°.     Philadelpliia,   1846. 

—  Same.     Songs,  Odes,  and  Other  Poems.     18°,  3  vols.     Philadelphia, 

1842. 

—  Mocking-Bird,  The.     18°.     Alexandria,  1814. 


AMEEICAX    POETRY.  249 

SonCt  Books,  (Martial,  Naval  and  Patriotic.)  —  Continued. 

—  Moore,    (F.)       Songs  and  Ballads  of  the   Revolution.      12°.     New 

York,  1856. 

One  of  the  choice  volumes  in  the  Martial,  Naval  and  Patriotic  Series  of  Song  Books  is 
Frank  Moore's  "  Songs  and  Ballads  of  the  Revolution."  Many  of  these,  we  are  told,  "  are 
taken  from  the  newspapers  and  periodical  issues  of  the  time;  others  from  original  ballad- 
sheets  and  broadsides;  while  some  have  been  received  from  the  recollections  of  a  few 
surviving  soldiers,  who  heard  and  sang  them  amid  the  trials  of  the  camp  and  the  field. 
Nearly  every  company  had  its  '  smart  one,'  or  poet,  who  beguiled  the  weariness  of  the 
march  or  the  encampment  by  his  minstrelsy,  grave  or  gay  ;  and  the  imperfect  fragments 
which  survive  to  us  provoke  our  regret  that  so  few  of  them  have  been  preserved." 

—  Same.     Songs  of  the  Soldiers.     24°.     New  York,  18G4. 

—  National    Songs,    etc.,    relating    to   the   War   of    1846.       (See    Mc- 

Carty,  W.) 

—  Naval  Songster,  The.      16°.     Charlestown,  1815. 

—  Page,  (A.)     Banner  of  Freedom,  The.      12°.     Providence,  1841. 

—  Parlour  Song  Book,  The.     32°.     New  York,  no  date. 

—  Patriotic  Songs.     Lg.  8°.     New  York,  1844. 

—  Patriotic  Songster.      18°.     New  York,  no  date. 

—  Paul,  (H.)      The  Book  of  American  Songs.      16°.     London,  1857. 

—  Rough  and  Ready  Songster,  The.     32°.     New  York,  \to  date. 

—  Soldier's  Companion,  The.     32°.     New  York,  no  date. 

—  Songs,  Naval,  Patriotic,  etc,     18°.     New  York,  1818. 

—  Songs,  Odes,  and  other  Poems.      (See  McCarty,  AY.) 

—  Songster's  Museum,  The.     18°.     Hartford,  1835. 

—  Star  Spangled  Banner,  The.     2d  Edition.      18°.     Wilmington,  1817. 

—  Uncle   Sam's   Naval  and  Patriotic  Songster.     16°.     New  York,  no 

date. 

—  Virginia  Warbler,  The.      16°.     Richmond,  1845. 

Song  Books,  etc.,   (Masonic.) 

Masonic  Song  Books  are  largely  represented  in  "  The  Harris  Collection."  In  "  The 
Constitutions  of  the  Ancient  and  Honorable  Fraternity  of  Free  and  Accepted  Masons," 
prepared  by  Brother  Thaddeus  Mason  Harris,  and  printed  by  Brother  Isaiah  Thomas,  at 
Worcester,  in  1792,  a  large  octavo  volume  of  288  pages,  pp.  216-286  are  devoted  to  "  Ora- 
torio,  Odes,  Anthems,  Prologues  and  Songs."  However  true  it  may  be  of  the  Masonic 
Songs  of  more  modern  times,  that  they  are  the  productions  of  true  poetic  genius,  this  can 
hardly  be  said  of  those  which  were  written  a  century  since.    We  give  the  following  : 

"  When  a  Lodge  of  Free  Masons  are  clothed  in  their  aprons 
In  order  to  make  a  new  Brother, 
With  firm  hearts  and  clean  hands  they  repair  to  their  stands. 
And  justly  support  one  another." 


250  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

Song  Books,  etc.,   (Masonic.)  —  Continued. 

The  writer  of  this  song  seems  to  be  called  on  to  vindicate  "  the  Craft  "  in  their  decis- 
ion not  to  receive  women  into  their  mystic  ranks  : 

"  Tlie  ladies  claim  right  to  come  into  our  light, 
Since  the  Apron,  they  say,  is  their  bearing; 
Can  they  subject  their  will?    Can  they  keep  their  tongues  still, 
And  let  talking  be  changed  into  hearing? 

"This  difficult  task  is  the  least  we  can  ask. 
To  secure  us  on  sundry  occasions ; 
When  with  us  they  comply,  our  utmost  we'll  try 
To  raise  Lodges  for  Lady  Free  Masons. 

"  Till  this  can  be  done,  must  each  Brother  be  mum, 
Tho'  the  fair  one  should  wheedle  or  tease  on ; 
Be  just,  true  and  kind,  but  still  bear  in  mind 
At  all  times  that  you  are  a  Free  Mason." 

—  Altbrd,  (L.  A.)      Masonic  Gem.      2d  Edition.      12°.     New  York, 

18G8. 

—  Chisel,  (C.)     Lamentation  of  Free  Masonry.     12°.     Norwich,  1829. 

—  Clark,  (W.  R.)     A  Masonic  Poem.     8°.     Trenton,  1860. 

—  Eastman,  (L.)      Masonic  Melodies.     8°.     Boston,  1818. 

—  Fraternal    Tribute    to    Masonic     Character    of    Washington.      8°. 

Charlestown,  1790. 

—  Hardca.stle,  (J.)     The  Masonic  Museum.     12°.     New  York,  5816. 

—  Macoy,  (R.)     The  Masonic  Vocal  Manual.     18°.     New  York,  1854. 

—  Masonic  Choir.     Lg.  16°.      1864. 

—  Masonic  Lyre,  The.     Sm.  16°.     New  York,  1854. 

—  Masonic  Minstrel.     8°.     Dedham,  1816. 

—  Masonic  Museum,  The.      (See  Hardcastle,  J.) 

—  Masonic  Odes,  etc.     Lg.  8°.     Worcester,  1792. 

—  Masonic  Vocal  Manual,  The.      (See  Macoy,  R.) 

—  Melodies  for  the  Craft.     16°.     Cincinnati,  1852. 

Song  Books,   (Negro  Minstrel.) 

The  negro  minstrelsy  literature  (if  so  dignified  a  name  can  properly  be  given  to  this 
species  of  writing)  of  "The  Collection  "  is  remarkable  both  for  quantity  and  quality.  One 
is  amazed  to  know  that  such  a  mass  of  wliat  seems,  for  the  most  part,  to  be  "  puerile 
stuff,"  could  have  been  produced  at  all,  and  still  more  amazed  that  there  could  have  been 
such  a  demand  for  these  songs  as  to  warrant  their  production.  One  hundred  volumes  of 
negro  song  books  indicates  a  popularity  of  a  certain  kind  for  this  sort  of  literature  that  is 
simply  mai'vellous. 

—  Arlington's  Banjo  Songster.     18°.     New  York,  no  date, 

—  Billy  Birch's  Ethiopian  Melodist.     18.     New  York,  1862. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  251 

Song  Books,   (Negro  Minstrel.) — Contimied. 

—  Bob  Hart's  Plantation  Songster.      18°.     New  York,  1862. 

—  Book,  The,  of  Negro  Songs.     32°.     New  York,  no  date. 

—  Brady's  Ethiopian  Drama.      Nos.  1-8,   12-20.       12°.     New  York, 

no  date. 

—  Brower's,  (Frank.)      (See  Frank  Brower's.) 

—  Bryant's  Cane  Brake  Refrains.      18°.     New  York,  1863. 

—  Bryant's  Essence  of  Old  Virginny.      18°.     New  York,  1857. 

—  Bryants'  New  Songster.      18°.     New  York,  1864. 

—  Bryant's  PoAver  of  Music.      18°.     New  York,  1859. 

—  Bryant's  Songs  from  Dixie's  Land.     18°.     Nbav  York,  1861. 

—  Buckley's  Ethiopian  Melodies.      18°.     New  York,  1853. 

—  Same.     No.  4.      18°.     New  York,  1857. 

—  Buckley's  Melodies.      18°-     New  York,  1853. 

—  Buckley's  Song  Book.      12°.     New  York,  1855. 

—  Carncross  &  Sharpley's  Minstrel.     18°.     Philadelphia,  1860. 

—  Charley  Fox's  Bijou  Songster.      18°.     New  York,  1858. 

—  Charley  Fox's  Minstrel  Companion.     18°.     Philadelphia,  1863. 

—  Charley  Fox's  Sable  Songster.      18°.     New  York,  1859. 

—  Christy's    (George)    Essence   of  Old   Kentucky.      18°.     New  York, 

1862. 

—  Christy's  Negro  Serenaders.     32°.     New  York,  1848. 

—  Christy's  Negro  Songster.     32°.     New  York,  1860. 

—  Christy's  NeAv  Songster  and  Black  Joker.      18°.     New  York,  1863. 

—  Christy's  Plantation  Melodies.      18°.     Philadelphia,  1851. 

—  Same.  No.  2.  18°.  Philadelphia,  1853. 
18°.  Philadelphia,  1854. 
18°.  Philadelphia,  1853. 
18°.  Philadelphia,  1854. 
18°.     Pliiladelphia,  1856. 

—  Christy's  and  White's  Ethiopian   Melodies.      18°.     Philadelphia,  no 

date. 

—  Christy  (George)  &  Wood's  Melodies.      18°.     New  York,  1854. 

—  Collins,  (J.  H.)      (See  Unsworth's.) 

—  Converse's,  (Frank.)      (See  Frank  Converse's.) 

—  Dandy  Jim  and  Dan  Tucker's  Jaw  Bone.     32°.     New  York,  1844. 

35 


Same. 

No. 

2. 

Same. 

No. 

3 

Same. 

No. 

4 

Same. 

No. 

5 

Slav 

eiy.) 

—  Same. 

No. 

2. 

18°, 

—  Same. 

No. 

o. 

18°, 

—  Same. 

No. 

4. 

18°. 

—  Same. 

No. 

o. 

18°, 

—  Same. 

No. 

G. 

18° 

252  HAKKIS    COLLECTION. 

SoxG  Books,  (Negro  Minstrel.) — Continued. 

—  Deacon  Snowball's  Negro  Melodies.     32°.     Boston,  1843. 

—  Dime  Negro  Melodies.     No.  1.      (See  Song  Books.)     (Rebellion  and 

riiiUidclphia,  18Go. 
Philadelphia,  1865. 
Philadelphia,  1865. 
Pliiladelphia,  1865. 
Philadelphia,  1865. 

—  Dixey's  Essence  of  Burnt  Cork.     18°.     Philadelphia,  1859. 

—  Dixey's  Songster.      18°:     Philadelphia,  1860. 

—  Eph  Horn's  Own  Songster.      18°.     New  York,  1864. 

—  Flat  Nose,  The,  and  Thick  Lip,  Melodist.     32°.     New  York,  no  date. 

—  Fox,  (C.  H.)      (See  Charley  Fox's.) 

—  Fox's,  (Charley.)      (See  Charley  Fox's.) 

—  Frank  Brower's  Black  Diamond  Songster.      18°.     New  York,  1863. 

—  Frank  Converse's  "  Old  Cremona."     18°.     New  York,  1863. 

—  George  Christy's.      (See  Christy's,  George.) 

—  Harry  Pell's  Ebony  Songster.      18°.     New  York,  1864. 

—  Hart's,  (Bob.)     (See  Bob  Hart's.) 

—  Hooley's  Black  Star  Songster.      18°.     New  York,  1865. 

—  Hooley's  Opera  House  Songster.      18°.     New  York,  1863. 

—  Horn's,  (Eph.)      (See  Eph  Horn's.) 

—  Jasper  Jack's  Bran  New  Collection.     32°.     New  York,  [1843?] 

—  Jim  Crow  Song  Book,  The.     32°.     Ithica,  1847. 

—  Johnson's  Original  Comic  Songs.      18°.     New  Yoi'k,  1855. 

—  Kentucky  and  Virginny  Minstrel.      32°.      New  York,  no  date. 

—  Lucy  Neal's  Nigga  Warbler.     32°.     Philadelphia,  [1843  ?] 

—  Mac  Dill  Darrel  Dime  Melodist,  The.      18°.     New  York,  1860. 

—  Same.     No.  II.      18°.     New  York,  1860. 

—  Matt  Peel's  Banjo.      18°.     New  York,  1858. 

—  Morris',  (Pete.)      (See  Pete  Morris'.) 

—  My  Dearest  May,  and  Rosa   Lee's   Song  Book.     32°.     New  York, 

[1843?] 

—  Negro,  The,  Forget-Me-Not  Songster.     32°.     Philadelphia,  1844. 

—  Negro,  The,  Singer's  Own  Book.     '32.     Philadelphia,  no  date. 

—  Negro's,  De,  Original  Piano-Rama.      18°.     Philadelphia,  1850. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  253 

Song  Books,   (Negro  Minstrel.)  —  Continued. 

—  Nelse  Seymour's  Big-Shoe  Songster.      18°.     New  York,  1863. 

—  New  Popular,  The,  Forget-Me-Not  Songster.     32°.     Cincinnati,  no 

date. 

—  Nigger  Melodies.     32°.     New  York,  no  date. 

—  Peel's,  (Matt.)      (See  Matt  Peel's.) 

—  Pete  Morris'  American  Comic  Melodist.     18°.     New  York,  1857. 

—  Sam  Sharpley's  Iron-Clad  Songster.      18°.     New  York,  1864. 

—  Sanford's  Ethiopian  Melodies.      18°.     Philadelphia,  1855. 

—  Same.      18°.     Philadelphia,  1860. 

—  Seymour's,  (Nelse.)      (See  Nelse  Seymour's.) 

—  Sharpley's,  (Sam.)      (See  Sam  Sharpley's.) 

—  Shiney  Eye,  De,  Crooked   Shin,  and  Oh,  Susannah  Songster.     32°. 

New  York,  no  date. 

—  Southern  Songster,  and  Mrs.  Tucker's  Delight.     32°.     [Philadelphia, 

1843  ?] 

—  Tom  Vance's  Circus  Songster.     18°.     New  York,  1855. 

—  Tom  Vance's  Kom-e-kill  Songster.      18°.     Philadelphia,  1866. 

—  Townsend,  (B.  O'N.)     Plantation  Lays.     12°.     Columbia,  1884. 

—  United  States  Screamer,  De.     32°.     Philadelphia,  no  date. 

—  Unsworth's    Burnt    Cork    Lyrics.     Edited   by  J.   H.   Collins.     18°. 

New  York,  1859. 

—  Vance's,  (Tom.)      (See  Tom  Vance's.) 

—  Vaughn  and  Fox's  Banjo  Songster.     18°.     New  York,  1860. 

—  Virginia   Serenaders,  The,   Illustrated  Songster.      18°.     New  York, 

no  date. 

—  Same.      18°.     Philadelphia,  no  date. 

—  White's  New  Book  of  Plantation  Melodies.     18°.     New  York,  1848. 

—  Same.      18°.     New  York,  1849. 

—  Same.      18°.     Philadelphia,  no  date. 

—  AVhite's  New  Ethiopian.     18°.     New  York,  1850. 

—  AVhite's  New  Illustrated  Melodeon.     18°.     New  York,  1848.^^ 

—  Same.      18°.     Philadelphia,  no  date. 

—  White's  Serenaders.      18°.     New  York,  1851. 

—  AVood's  Minstrels'  Songs.      18°.     New  York,  1852. 

—  Same.      18°.     New  York,  1853. 

—  Same.      18°.     New  York,  1855. 


254  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

Song  Books,  (Negro  Minstrel.)  —  Continued. 

—  Wood's  New  Plantation  Melodies.      18°.     New  York,  1853. 

—  Ya-Hoo  Roarer.     32°.     New  York,  [1843  ?  ] 

Song  Books,  (Presidential  Campaign.) 

Campaign   of  1840. 

—  Harrison  and  Log  Cabin  Song  Book,  The.      18°.     Columbus,  1840. 

—  Harrison  Medal  Minstrel,  The.     32°.     Philadelphia,  1840. 

—  Harrison  Melodies.      18°.     Boston  1840. 

—  Log  Cabin  and  Hard  Cider  Melodies,  The.     18°.     Boston,  1840. 

—  Log  Cabin  Song  Book,  The.      12°.     New  York,  1840. 

—  Tippecanoe  Song  Book.      18°.     Philadelpliia,  1840. 

Campaign  of  1844. 

—  American  Republican  Songster,  The.      (See  De  Le  Ree,  P.) 

—  Clay  Minstrel,  The.     32°.     New  York,  1842. 

—  De  Le  Ree,  (P.)      The  American  Republican  Songster.     2d  Edition. 

12°.     New  York,  1844. 

—  Democratic  Lute,  The.      (See  Hickey,  J.) 

—  Harry  Clay  Melodist,  The.      18°.     Boston,  1842. 

—  Harry  Clay  Songster,  The.     32°.     Boston,  1842. 

—  Hickey,  (J.)     The  Democratic  Lute.      1-8°.     Philadelphia,  1844. 

—  National  Clay  Melodist,  The.     2d  Edition.     24°.     Boston,  1844. 

—  National  Clay  Minstrel,  The.     32°.     Philadelphia,  1843. 

—  Same.      New  Edition.     32°.     Boston,  1843. 

—  Patriotic  Songs.     8°.     New  York,  1844. 

—  Song,  A,  etc.     By  T.  Williams.      8°.     Providence,  1844. 

—  That  Same  Old  'Koon's  Roarer.     32°.     New  York,  no  date. 

—  Whig  Songs  for  the  Mendon  Clay  Club.      12°.     Boston,  1844. 

Campaign  of  1848. 

—  i^l  the  Letters  and  Songs  of  Old  Zach's  Campaigns,  etc.     Edited  by 

S.  Horn.     8°.     New  York,  1848. 

—  Cass  &  Butler  Songster.     32°.     Philadelphia,  1848. 

—  Free  Soil  Minstrel,  The.      12°.     New  York,  1848. 

—  Rough  and  Ready  Melodist,  The.      18°.      New  York,  1848. 


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Song  Books,  (Presidential  Campaign.) — Continued. 

—  Rough  and  Ready  Songs.     8°.     New  York,  1848. 

.—  Taylor  and  Fillmore  Songster.     32°.     New  York,  1848. 

Campaign  of  1852. 

—  Scott  Songster,  The.     32°.     Cincinnati,  1852. 

Campaign   of  1856. 

—  Blodget,  (W.  P.)     Rocky  Mountain   Song  Book.     8°.     Providence, 

1856. 

—  Drew,  (T.)     Fremont  Songs.      16°-     Boston,  185G. 

—  Freeman's  Glee  Book,  The.      18°.     New  York,  1856. 

—  Fillmore  and  Donelson  Songs.      12°.      New  York,  1856. 

—  Fremont  Songs.     24°.     Boston,  1856. 

—  Republican  Campaign  Songster,  The.      18°.     New  York,  1856. 

—  Rocky  Mountain  Song  Book.      (See  Blodget,  W.  P.) 

Campaign  of  1860. 

—  Bungay,  (G.  W.)      The  Bobolink  Minstrel.     18°.    New  York,  1860. 

—  Burleigh,  (W.  H.)      Republican    Campaign    Songster.      18°.     New 

York,  1860. 

—  Civis,    (G.   W.)       Songs    for    the    Great   Campaign  of  1860.      12°. 

New  York,  1860. 

—  Democratic  Campaign  Songster,  The.      18°.     New  York,  1860. 

—  Drew,  (T.)     Republican  Songs  for  the  People.     Sm.  16°.     Boston, 

1860. 

—  Honest  Abe  of  the  West.     Broadside. 

—  Hutchinson,    (.J.    W.)       Connecticut  Wide-Awake   Songster.       18°. 

New  York,  1860. 

—  Same.     Hutchinson's  Republican  Songster.      18°.     New  York,  1860. 

—  Lincoln  and  Hamlin.     Campaign  Song.     Broadside. 

—  Republican  Songs.      18°.     Boston,  1860. 

—  AVide-Awake  Vocalist,  The.     Ob.  16°.     New  York,  1860. 

Campaign  of  1864. 

—  Campaign  Songs.      (See  Potts,  W.  D.) 

—  Herbert,  (S.)     McClellan   Campaign  Melodist.     8th  Edition.     16°. 

New  York,  1864. 


25()  IIAKKIS    COLLECTION. 

Song  Books,   (Pkksidentiai.  Campaign.)  —  Continued. 

—  Little  Mac's  Campaign  Songs.      12°.     New  York,  1864. 

—  Little  Mac's  Campaign  Songster,  The.      18°.     New  York,  1864. 

—  McClellan  Campaign  JNIclodist.      (See  Herbert,  S.) 

—  Pott's  (W.  D.)  Campaign  Songs.      12°.      New  York,  1864. 

—  President  Lincoln  Campaign  Songster,  The.     18°.     New  York,  1864. 

—  Republican  Campaign  Songster,  The.     32°.     Cincinnati,  1864. 

—  Tremainc    Brothers',   The,   Lincoln    and    Johnson    Campaign    Song 

Book.      18°.     New  York,  18G4-1865. 

Campaign  of  1868. 

—  "Brick"  Pomeroy's.      (See  G.  E.  L.) 

—  Gt-.  (E.  L.)      "Brick"  Pomeroy's  Democratic  Campaign  Song  Book. 

16°.     New  York,  1868. 

—  Seymoin-  Campaign  Songster.     32°.     New  York,  1868. 

Campaign  of  1872. 

—  Cmnmings,  (A.  J.)     The  Sun's  Greeley  Campaign    Songster.      16°. 

New  York,  1872. 

—  "The  Farmer  of  Chappaqua "    Songster,  The.      16°.      New  York, 

1872. 

—  Grant  &  AYilson  Campaign  Songster,  The.      16°.     New  York,  1872. 

—  Greeley  &  Brown  Campaign  Songster,  The.     16°.     New  York,  1872. 

Campaign  of  1880. 

—  Campaign  Primer,  The.     Sq.  18°.     New  York,  1880. 

Song  Books,   (Rebellion  and  Slavery.) 

—  American  Union  Songster,  The.      16°.     Indian'apolis,  1862. 

—  Anti-Slavery  Harp,  The.     Edited  by  W.  W.  Brown.      12°.     Boston, 

1848. 

—  Anti-Slavery  Hymns.      18°.     Hopedale,  Mass.,  1844. 

—  Anti-Slavery  Poems.     Liberty  Chimes.     18°.     Providence,  1845. 

—  Army  Melodies.      (See  Dadmun,  J.  W.) 

—  Army  and  Navy  Melodies.      (See  Dadmun,  J.  W.) 

—  Ballads  of  the  South.      (Dawley's  Ten-Penny  Song  Books.     No.  2.) 

18°.     New  York,  1864. 


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Song  Books,   (Rebellion  and  Slavery.)  —  Gontinued. 

—  Ballads  of  the  War.      (Dawley's  Ten-Penny  Songs  Books.     No.  1.) 

18°.     New  York,  1864. 

—  Bang's  Penny  Songster.     No.  1.      16°.     Providence,  no  date. 

—  Same.     No.  2.      16°.     Providence,  no  date. 

—  Banner  Songster,  The.      18°.     New  York,  1865. 

—  Beadle's  Dime  Knapsack.      18°.     New  York,  1862. 

—  Beadle's   Dime  Military.       Edited  by  W.  R.  Wallace.      16°.     New 

York,  1861. 

—  Beadle's  Dime  Songs  for  the  War.      16°.     New  York,  1861. 

—  Beadle's  Dime  Union.     No.  1.     16°.      New  York,  1861. 

—  Same.     No.  2.     16°.     New  York,  1861. 

—  Same.     No.  3.      16°.     New  York,  1862. 

—  Billy  Holmes's  Comic  Local  Lyrics.      12°.     New  York,  1866. 

—  Book  of  Words.      (See  Hutchinson  Family.) 

—  Brown,  (W.  W.)      (See  the  Anti-Slavery  Harp.) 

—  Buckley's  Dime  Knapsack.      18°.     New  York,  1862. 

—  Buckley's  Melodist,      18°.     Boston,  1864. 

—  Bm-ton,    (E.)      Events  of  1875-76   Songster.      18°.     New  York,  no 

date. 

—  Camp  Songs.     32°.     Boston,  1862. 

—  Chanticleer  Songster,  The.      18°.      New  York,  1866. 

—  Chimes  of  Freedom  and  Union.      18°.     Boston,  1861. 

—  Clark,  (G.  W.)      The  Liberty  Minstrel.     7th  Edition.     12°.     New 

York,  1844. 

—  Continental  Songster,  The.      18°.     Philadelphia,  1863. 

—  Copperhead  Minstrel,  The.      12°.     New  York,  1863. 

—  Dadmun,  (J.  W.)     Army  Melodies.      16°.     Boston,  1861. 

—  Same.     Army  and  Navy  Melodies.     16°.     Boston,  1862. 

—  Same.     Union  League  Melodies.     16°.     Boston,  1864. 

—  Dawley's  Ten-Penny  Song  Books.      (See  Ballads.) 

—  Dime  Negro   Melodies.     No.  1.     Happy  Contraband.      18°.     Phila- 

delphia, 1864. 

—  Flag  of  Our  Union  Songster,  The.      18°.     New  York,  1861. 

—  Free  Soil  Minstrel.      12°.     New  York,  1848. 

—  Furncss,  (W.  H.)     A  Song  for  the  Times.     8°.     No  place,  no  date. 

—  General  Lee  Songster,  The.     18°.     Macon,  Ga.,  1865. 


258  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

Song  Books,  (Rkbellion  and  Slavkhy.)  —  Continued. 

—  George  Muni;oe's  Ten  Cent  Song  Book.      16°.     New  York,  no  date. 

—  Guiding  Star  Songster,  The.      12°.     New  York,  1865. 

—  Holmes's,  (Billy.)      (See  Billy  Ilohues's.) 

—  Hutchinson  Family,  Book  of  Words  of  the.      12°.      New  York,  1851. 

—  Same.      12°.     New  York,  1852. 

—  Same.      12°.     New  York,  1853. 

—  Same.     12°.     Boston,  1855. 

—  Jack  Morgan  Songster,  The.     Sm.  16°.     Raleigh,  1864. 

—  Lincoln,  (J.)     Anti-Slavery  Melodies.      12°.     Hingham,  1843. 

—  Little  Mac  Songster,  The.      18°.     New  York,  1862. 

—  Lyrics  for  Freedom.      12°.     NewYork.  1862. 

—  IMoral  Songster,  The.      18°.     Philadelphia,  1862. 

—  ^Munroe's,  (George.)      (See  George  Munroe's.) 

—  Naval  Songster,  The.      18°.     Philadelphia,  1862. 

—  New  and  Enlarged  Edition.      (See  Patriotic  Song  Book.) 

—  NcAv  and  Popular  Songs.     8°.     Philadelphia,  1865. 

—  New  Confederate  Flag,  The.     No.  1.     4th  Edition.      16°.     Mobile, 

1864. 

—  Patriotic    Song  Book,  The.      New  and  Enlarged  Edition.      Ob.    16°. 

New  York,.  1862. 

—  Poole,  (J.  F.)     Fattie  Stewart's  Comic  Songster.     18°.     NewYork, 

1863. 

—  Purdy,  (S.   S.)      Purdy's   Paul  Pry   Songster.       16°.      New  York, 

1865. 

—  Rataplan,   The;  or.  The   "  Red,  White   and   Blue"  Warbler.     Ob. 

16°.     NewYork,  1861. 

—  Red,  White  and  Blue.      16°.     Indianapolis,  1861. 

—  Shilling  Song  Book,  The.     No.  1.      (See  Song  Books,  Various.) 

—  Same.     No.  2.      16°.     Boston,  1862. 

—  Same.     No.  3.      16°.     New  York,  1864. 

—  Soldiers'  and  Sailors'  Patriotic  Songs.     L.  P.  Society,  No.  49.     8°. 

New  York,  1864. 

—  Soldier's  Companion,  The.     2d  Edition.      12°.     Boston,  1861. 

—  Same.     5th  Edition.      12°.     Boston,  1862. 

—  Soldier's   Hymn    Book,   The.      70th   Thousand.     32°.     New  York, 

1861. 


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Song  Books,    (Rebellion  and  Slavery.)  —  Continued. 

—  Soldier's   Hymn   Book,  The.     140th  Thousand.     32°.     New  York, 

1861. 

—  Song,  A,  for  the  Times.      (See  Furness,  \V.  H.) 

—  Songs  and  Ballads  of  Freedom.      12°.     New  York,  1864. 

—  Songs  and  Choruses,  The,  in  Uncle  Tom's  Cabin.     No  place,  1853. 

—  Songs  for  the  Union.     8°.     New  Yoi'k.  no  date. 

—  Same.      18°.     Philadelphia,  1861. 

—  Same.     18°.     Philadelphia,  1864. 

—  Songs  for  War  Time.      16°.     Boston,  1863. 

—  Songs  of  the  Free.     12°.     Boston,  1836. 

—  Songs  of  Love  and  Liberty.     18°.     Raleigh,  1864. 

—  Songs  of  the  Nation  for  1861.      18°.     New  York,  1861. 

—  Songs  of  the  AYar.      12°.     Albany,  1863. 

—  Songster,  Red,  White  and  Blue.      18°.     New.  York,  no  date. 

—  Songster,  The  Banner.      18°.     New  York,  1865. 

—  Songster,  The  Chanticleer.      18°.     New  York,  1866. 

—  Songster,  The  Repository.      18°.      New  York,  1811. 

—  Southern  Soldier's  Prize  Songster,  The.      16°.     Mobile,  1864. 

—  Stars  and  Stripes  Songster,  The.     18°.     New  York,  1861. 

—  Same.     No.  2.      18°.     New  York,  1864. 

—  Stockwell,    (W.  W.)       New   Songs    and   Poems.      16°.     Cleveland, 

1864. 

—  Tent  and  Forecastle  Songster,  The.     18°.     New  York,  1862. 

—  Tony  Pastor's  New  Union  Song  Book.      18°.     New  York,  1862. 

—  Touch  the  Elbow  Songster.      18°.     New  York,  1862. 

—  Trumpet  of  Freedom.     Ob.  8°.     Boston,  1864. 

—  Tucker,  (H.)      (So;  Rataplan,  The.) 

—  Uncle  Sam's  Army  Songster.      16°.     Indianapolis,  1862. 

—  Union  League  Melodies.      (See  Dadmun,  J.  W.) 

—  United  States  of  America.      (See  Songs  of  the  Nation  for  1861.) 

—  AVallace,  (W.  R.)      (See  Beadle's  Dime  Military.) 

—  War-Songs  for  Freemen.     Sq.  16°.     Boston,  r862. 

—  Same.     2d  PMition.     Sq.  16°.     Boston,  1863. 

—  Same.     3d  Edition.     Sq.  16°.     Boston,  1863. 

—  Same.     4th  Edition.     Sq.  16°.     Boston,  1863. 

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2(30  IIARKIS    COLLECTION. 

Song  Books,  (Rebellion  and  Slavery.)  —  Gontinued. 

—  "W.ar-Soiigs  for  Freedom.     Sq.  16°.     New  York,  18G2. 

—  War  Songs  of  the  American  Union.      12°.     Boston,  18G1. 

—  War  Songs  of  the  South.      18°,     Richmond,  18G2. 

—  Yankee  Doodle  Songster,  The.     18°.     Phihxdelpliia,  18G1. 

—  Yankee  Vohmteer's  Songster,  The.     18°.     PhiLadcIphia,  18G2. 

For  other  Song  Books  relating  to  the  Rebellion  and  Slavery,  See  Siqira  Presidential 
Campaign  Song  Books  —  Campaigns  of  56,  '00  and  '64. 

Song  Books,  (Temperance.) 

—  Anderson  Temperance  Minstrel.     32°.     New  York,  no  date. 

—  Bonner,  (T.  D.)     The  Mountain  Minstrel.     32°.     Concord,  1847. 

—  Same.     The  Temperance  Hai'p.     32°.     Northampton,  1842. 

—  Crystal  Fount.     32°.      New  York,  1854. 

—  Cold  AVater  Melodies,  The.     3d  Edition.      18°.     Boston,  1842. 

—  Hubbard,    (S.)      The    New   Temperance    Melodist.      12°.     Boston, 

1859. 

—  Pearce,  (B.  AY.)     The  New  England  Temperance  Songster.     Nos. 

1  and  2.     18°.     Pawtucket,'1845. 

—  Same.     Nos.  3  and  4.      1G°.     Pawtucket,  1845. 

—  Pic-Nic  Songs.      12°.     Boston,  no  date. 

—  Pierpont,  (J.)     Cold  Water  Melodies.      18°.     Boston,   1842. 

—  Same.     2d  Edition.     18°.     Boston,   1843. 

—  Slocum,  (S.)     The  Cold  Water  Melodies.     32°.     Providence,  1831. 

—  Temperance  Song  Book.     Sq.  1G°.     Boston,  1842. 

—  Temperance  Songster,  The.     32°.     New  York,  no  date. 

—  TroAvbridge,  (A.)      Temperance  Melodeon.     Lg.  8°.     Boston,  1844. 

—  Waugh,  (T.)     The  Temperance  Muse.     24°.     Providence,  1842. 

Song  Books  (Various.) 

—  Advent  Hymn  Book.     24°.     Concord,  N.  H.,  1843. 
_  Same.     24°.     Nashville,  1843. 

—  Allen,  (AV.)      Sacred  Songs.     18°.     Northampton,  1867. 

—  Alline,  (H.)      Hymns  and  Spiritual  Songs.      12°.     Stonington-Port 

Ct.,  1802. 

—  American  Songster.      18°.     Baltimore,  1799. 

—  American  Republican  Harmonist.      18°.     Philadelphia,  1803. 

—  American  Union  Songster.      18°.     Indianapolis,  1862. 


AMERICAN    rOETEY.  261 

Song  Books  (Various.)  —  Continued. 

—  American  Comic  Songster,  The.     18°.     New  York,  1834. 

—  American  Musical  Miscellany,  The.      12°.     Northampton,  1798. 

—  American  Songster,  The.     16°.     New  York,  1788. 

—  Same.     16°.     New  Y^ork,  1803. 

—  Angelo's  Original  Comic  Songs.      18°.     Philadelphia,  1862. 

—  Apollo,  The.      12°.     Philadelphia,  1793. 

—  Arey,  (Mrs.  H.  E.  G.)     Household  Songs,  etc.     12°.     New  York, 

1865. 

—  Arkansas  Traveller's  Songster,  The.      18°.     New  York,  1863. 

—  Ballon,  (A.)     The  Hopedale  Collection  of  Hymns.      12°.     Hopedale, 

1849. 

—  Baltimore    Musical   Miscellany,    The.       2    vols.      12°.      Baltimoi'e, 

1804-1805. 

—  Beadle's  Dime  Songs  of  the  Olden  Time.     16°.     New  York,  1863. 

—  Beadle  (I.  P.)    &  Company's  Ten  Cent  Song  Book.     No.  1.      16°. 

New  York,  1863. 

—  Beadle's  (I.  P.)  Ten  Cent  Song  Book.     No.   2.      16°.     New  York, 

1863. 

—  Same.      No.  3.     16°.     New  York,  1863. 

—  Berry's  (J.  S.)  Comic  Song  Book.      18°.     Ncav  York,  1863. 

—  Berry's  Comic  Songs.      18°.     Philadelphia,  1856. 

—  Billy  Emerson's  Nancy  Fat  Songster.      18°.     New  York,  1866. 

—  Black  Crook  Songster,  The.      18°.     New  York,  1867. 

—  Bob  Smith's  Clown  Song  and  Joke  Book.     18°.     New  York,  1863. 

—  Boys  of  New  York.     A   Song  and  Joke  Book.      16°.     New   York, 

no  date. 

—  Broadside  Songs  and  Ballads  relating  to   Slavery  and  the  Rebellion, 

about  500. 

—  Same.     Miscellaneous,  about  1,600. 

—  Brooks,  (C.  T.)     Songs  of  Field  and  Flood.     18°.     Boston,  1853. 

—  Buckley's  Song  Book  for  the  Parlor.      12°.     New  York,  1855. 

—  Carleton's  (Will.)  "  Dandy  Pat  "  Songster.     18°.     New  York,  1866. 

—  Carols  Quoit  Club  ;  or,  Noctes  Gymnasii.     Published  by  order  of  the 

Washington  Social  Gymnasium.     Lg.  8°.     Boston,  1839. 

—  Cartee,  (C.  S.)     The  Souvenir  Minstrel.      18°.     Philadelphia,  1837, 

—  Charlie  Melville's  Ballad  Songster.      18°.     New  York,  1860. 


262  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

Song  Books  (Various.)  —  Continued. 

—  Coliunbian  Songster.      (See  Baltimore  Musical  Miscellany.) 

—  Comic  and  Sentimental  Song  Book.     (See  Offord,  W.) 

—  Concert  Room  Comic  Songster,  The.     18°.     Philadelphia,  1860. 

—  Convivial  Songster,  The.      18°.     New  York,  1862. 

—  Cottage  Melodies.      18°.     New  York,  1859. 

—  Crosby,  (F.  J.)     The   Flower  Queen.     Ob.   8°.     New  York,  1852. 

—  Cullen,  (C.  C.)     American  Melodies.      12°.     Trenton,  1864. 

—  Cummings,    (J.  W.)     Songs   for    Catholic   Schools.      18°.     Boston, 

1862. 

—  Curween,    (H.)      French   Love   Songs.      Translations.      16°.     New 

York,  1861. 

—  Dan  Kelly's  Songster.      16°.     New  York,  1869. 

—  Diamond  Songster,  The.     24°.     Baltimore,  1817. 

—  Donaldson,   (P.)     The   Odd-Fellows'   Minstrel.     32°.     New   York, 

1848. 

—  Donnybrook  Fair  Comic  Songster,  The.     Edited  by  E.  T.   Johnson. 

18°.     New.  York,  1863. 

—  Dyer,  (S.)      Songs  and  Ballads.      12°.     New  York,   1857. 

—  Emerson's  (Billy.)      (See  Billy  Emerson's.) 

—  English's  (Joe)  Irish  Comic  Songster.     18°.     New  York,  1864. 

—  Fenian  War  Songs,  The.      18°.     New  York,  1866. 

—  Fireside  Song  Book,  The.     32°.     New  York,  no  date. 

—  Fitz,  (A.)      The  Dramatic  Song  Book.      18°.     Boston,  1868. 

—  Foster,  (S.  C.)     The  American  Dime  Song  Book.      18°.     Philadel- 

phia,  1859. 

—  Same.     No.  2.     18°.     Philadelphia,  1860. 

—  Same.     The   Love   and   Sentimental    Songster.      18°.     New   York, 

1862. 

—  Fred  May's  Comic  Irish  Songster.      18°.     New  York,  1862. 

—  Fred  Shaw's.      (See  Shaw's,  Fred.) 

—  Fred  Wilson's  Book  of  Original  Songs.      16°.     Boston,  1860. 

—  Free  and  Easy  Comic  Songster.      18°.     New  York,  1864. 

—  Frisky  Irish  Songster,  The.      18°.     NeAv  York,  1862. 

—  Gannon's  (Phil.   J.)    Original   Irish   Songster.      12°.     Philadelphia, 

1859. 

—  Gentle  Annie  Melodist.     No.  1.      18°.     New  York,  1860. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  263 

Song  Books  (Various.)  —  Continued. 

—  Gentle  Annie  Melodist.     No.  2.      18°.     New  York,  1859. 

—  Go  it !  while  You're  Young  Songster.     32°.     New  York,  no  date. 

—  Goodwin,  (E.  C.)     Wayside  Songs.     12°.     New  York,  1856. 

—  Goose  Hangs  High  Songster,  The.     18°.     New  York,  1866. 

—  Grigg's  Southern  and  AVestern  Songster.     18°.     Philadelphia,  1836. 

—  Gus  Shaw's.      (See  Shaw's,  Gus.) 

—  Hagen,  (J.  C.)      Ballads  of  the  Revolution.      16°.     New  York,  1866. 

—  Harmonica.     The  Collection  of  Popular   Songs.      16°.     New  York, 

1840. 

—  Harrison's  Comic  Songster.     18°.     New  York,  1849. 

—  Hastings,    (T.)     The  Mother's    Nursery   Songs.     12°.     New  York, 

1835. 

—  Heart  and  Home  Songsters,  The.     18°.     New  York,  1862. 

—  Heine,    (H.)     Book   of  Songs.     Leland   Translation.     3d    Edition. 

New  York,  1868. 

—  Hewitt,  (M.  E.)     Songs  of  Our  Land,  etc.      12°.     Boston,  1846. 

—  Hickok,  (J.)      (See  Social  Lyrist,  The.) 

—  Hill,  (T.)     Songs  and  Poems.     VoL  ii.      12°.     Worcester,   1852. 

—  Hobbs,  (G.  W.)      Songs  and  Stories.     Sq.  18°.     No  date. 

—  Hooley's  High  Daddy  Songster.     18°.     New  York,  1865. 

—  Hopkinson,  (J.)    Song  Adapted  to  the  President's  March.    8°.    Phila- 

delphia, no  date. 

—  Hutchinson,  (Ellen  M.)      Songs  and  Lyrics.      18°.     Boston,  1881. 

—  Irwin  P.  Beadle's.      (See  Beadle's,  I.  P.) 

—  Irwin  P.  Beadle  &  Co's.      (Sec  Beadle,  I.  P.  &  Co's.) 

—  J.  S.  iSerry's.      (See  Berry's,  J.  S.) 

—  Joe  English's.      (See  English's,  Joe.) 

—  Jovial  Songster,  The.     18°.     New  York,  1805. 

—  Lanigan's  Ball  Comic  Songster,  The.     18°.     New  York,  1863. 

—  Larkin,  (S.)      (See  Nightingale,  The.) 

—  League  Meeting  Songs.     18°.     Philadelphia,  18G6. 

—  Leon,  De  (T.  C.)     South  Songs.      18°.     New  York,  1866. 

—  Lyte,  (E.  O.)     School  Room  Songs.     8°.     Philadelphia. 

—  Magazine  of  Songs.      18°.     New  York,  no  date. 

—  May's  (Fred.)      (See  Fred  May's.) 

—  Melville's  (Charlie.)      (See  Charlie  Melville's.) 


264  II  All  K  IS    COLLECTION. 

Song  Books  (Various.)  —  Continued. 

—  Minstrel  of  Zim.     Religious  Songs,      IT)",     riiiladrlpliia,  1845. 

—  Moore,  (Julia  A.)      The  Sentimental  Song  Uook.      Sq.  18°.      Cleve- 

land, 1877. 

—  Same.     American  Melodies.      18°.     New  York,  1841. 

—  Morris,  (G.  P.)      Songs  and  Ballads.      8°.     New  York,  1844. 

—  Same.     24°.     New  York,  1846. 

—  Same.     24°.     New  York,  1852. 

—  Morris'  (Pete)  American  Comic  Melodist.     18°.     New  Y'ork,  1857. 

—  Mulchinock,  (W.  P.)     Ballads  and  Songs.     New  York,  1851. 

—  Munroe's   Song  Book  for  the   Million.     No.    5.      16°.     New  York, 

1864. 

—  Same.     No.  6.     16°.     New  York,  1863. 

—  Munsell's  Songs  of  the  American  Press.      18°.     Albany,  no  date. 

—  New  England  Pocket  Songster,  The.     32°.     Claremont,  N.  H.,  1835. 

—  New  Pocket  Song  Book,  The.     32°.     New  Y'ork,  no  date. 

—  Nightingale,  The.     Edited  by  S.  Larkin.      12°.     Portsmouth,    1804. 

—  Same  ;  or.  Musical  Companion.     New  York,  1814. 

—  Odd  Fellows'  Minstrel,  The.      (See  Donaldson  P.)  ' 

—  O'Donnell,  (K.)     The  Song  of  Iron,  etc.      18°.     Philadelphia,  1863. 

—  Offord,  (W.)      Comic  and    Sentimental  Song  Book.      18°.     Brook- 

lyn, 1865. 

—  O'Reilly,  (J.  B.)      Songs,  Legends,  etc.      12°.     Boston,  1878. 

—  Same.     Songs  from  the  Southern  Seas.-    16°.     Boston,  1873. 

—  Same.     Songs  of  United  Germany.     Lg.  8°.     New  Y^ork,  1870. 

—  Parlor  Songster.     24°.     New  York,  1844. 

—  Pastor's  (Tony.)     Book  of  Six  Hundred  Comic  Songs  and  Speeches. 

18°.     New  York,  1867. 

—  Same.     Carte  de  Visite  Album  Songster.      18°.     New  York,  1865. 

—  Same.      "  444  "  Combination  Songster.      18°.     New  Y^'ork,  1864. 

—  Same.     Comic  and  Eccentric  Songster.     18°.     New  Y'ork,  1862. 

—  Same.     Great  Sensation   Songster.     Edited   by  J.    F.    Poole.     18°. 
'      New  Y^ork,  1863. 

—  Same.     New  Irish  Comic  Songster.      18°.     New  York,  1863. 

—  Same.     "Own"    Comic  Vocalist.     Edited  by  J.   F.    Poole.      18°. 

New  York,  1863. 

—  Same.     Waterfall  Songster.     18°.     New  York,  1866. 


AMEEICAN    rOETPvY.  265 

Song  Books  (Variovs.)  —  Continued. 

—  Paul,  (H.)     The  Book  of  American  Songs.     18°.     London,  1857. 

—  Pearl  Songster,  The.     32°.     New  York,  1846. 

—  People's  New  Songster,  The.     32°.     No  place,  1862. 

—  Pete  Morris'.      (See  Morris',  Pete.) 

—  Phil.  J.  Gannon's.      (See  Gannon's,  Phil.  J.) 

—  Poole,    (J.  F.)      The    Doiible-Quick   Comic    Songster.     18°.     New 

Y^ork,  1862. 

—  Same.     Comic  Songster.     18°.     New  Y'ork,  1863. 

—  Same.      (See  also  Pastor's,  Tony.) 

—  School  Soiigs  for  the  Million.     8°.     Boston,  1850. 

—  ShaAv's  (Fred.)  Amei'ican  Diadem.     32°.     New  York,  1860. 

—  Same.     Champion  Comic  Melodist.     18°.     New  Y''ork,  1860. 

—  Same.     Dime  American   Comic  Songster.      18°.     New  Y'ork,  1860. 

—  Shaw's  (Gus)  Comic  Song  and  Recitation  Book.      18°.     New  York, 

1860. 
- —  Same.     New  Comic  Songs.      18°.     Philadelphia,  1860. 

—  Same.     Original  Comic  Songs.    ,18°.     New  Y'oi'k,  1857. 

—  Shilling  Song  Book,  The.     32°.     New  Y^ork,  1860. 

—  Same.     No.  2.     32°.     Boston,  no  date. 

—  Singer's  Own  Book,  The.     32°.     Philadelphia,  1839. 

—  Smith's  (Bob.)      (See  Bob  Smith's.) 

—  Social   Lyrist,    The.      By  J.   H.   Hickok.      18°.     Harrisburg,   Pa., 

1840.  " 

—  Song  Book,  Public.      18°.      Baltimore,  no  date. 

—  Song  Book,  Scotch.     24°.     New  Y^ork,  1822. 

—  Song,  Whaling.      18°.     New  Bedford,  1831. 

—  Songs,  A  Book  of,  for  Little  Sisters.     Sq.  16°.     New  York,  1854. 

—  Songs,  A  Choice  Selection.     18°.     Pliiladelphia,  no  date. 

—  Songs  in  the  Night.     5tli  Edition.      16°.     Boston,   1858. 

—  Songs  of  the  Free.      12°.     Boston,  1836. 

—  Songs  of  the  Florences.      18°.     New  York,  1860. 

—  Songs  of  the  League.     24°.     Worcester,  1848. 

—  Songs  of  tlie  Ocean.     32°.     New  Y'ork,  no  date. 

—  Songs  of  the  Quilt.     8°.     New  London,  1845. 

—  Songs  of  the  Woodlands,  etc.      12°.     New  York,  1859. 

—  Songs  of  Zion,  for  Methodists.     24°.     Baltimore,  1817. 


266  HAKRIS    COLLECTION. 

Song  Books  (Various.)  —  Continued. 

—  Songs — Rote,  of  the  Normal  Music  Course.     Lg.  8°.     New  York, 

1883. 

—  Songs,  Sacred,  for   Family  and  Social  Worship.      12°.     New  York, 

1842. 

—  Songs,  San  Souci.      18°.     New  York,  1859. 

—  Songs.     Single  leaves  bound  in  4  volumes.      Lg.  8°.     New  York,  no 

date. 

Published  by  H.  Marsan,  as  follows :  Vol.  i,  called  List  No.  ■I,  100  Songs;  Vol.  ii,  List 
No.  10,  100  Songs;  Vol.  iii,  List  No.  13,  102  Songs;  Vol.  iv,  List  No.  15,  102  Songs.  The 
songs  in  the  last  three  volumes  are  alphabetically  arranged. 

—  Songs,  Spiritual.     Hastings  and  Mason.      18°.     Utica,  1832. 

—  Songster,  The  Chanticleer.      18°.     New  York,  1866. 

—  Songster,  The  Western.      18°.     Title-page  gone. 

—  Songster,  The  Western  Sisters.      18°.     New  York,  no  date. 

—  Songster,  Our  Girls.      18°.      New  York,  no  date. 

—  Songster's  Miscellany,  The.      18°.     Philadelphia,  1817. 

—  Temple  of  Harmony,  The.      16°,     Baltimore,   1801. 

—  Tony  Pastor's.      (See  Pastor's,  Tony.) 

—  Variety  Songster,  The.     32°.     New  York,  no  date. 

—  Virginia  Nightingale.      18°.     Title-page  gone. 

—  Vocal  Lyre,  The.     24°.     Newark,  N.  J.,  1852. 

—  Western  Songster.     24°.     Philadelphia,  1835. 

—  AVill  Carleton's.      (See  Carleton's,  Will.) 

—  Wilson's  (Fred).      (See  Fred  Wilson's.) 

—  Zion's  Songster,  The  Southern.     24°.     Raleigh,  1864. 

Sophia;   or.  The    Reign    of    AVoman.      (Anon.)     8°,   pp.   40.     New 
York,  1864. 

Sold  at  the  New  York  Metropolitan  Fair  for  the  benefit  of  the  United  States  Sanitary 
Commission. 

SoRAN,  (C.)      The  Petapsco,  and  Other  Poems.     8°,  pp.  viii,  84.     Balti- 
more, 1841. 

—  Same.     3d  Edition.      12°,  pp.  194.     Baltimore,  1858. 

"  Many  of  the  articles,"  says  the  author,  "  in  the  volume  were  composed  whilst  in  the 
actual  performance  of  mechanical  labor,  and  written  out  in  moments  of  relaxation,  and  all 
of  them  are  tlie  fruits  of  time  stolen  from  more  important  employments." 

SouDER,  (Mrs.  E.  A.)     An   Appeal  for  the  Floating  Church,  etc.     8°, 
pp.  83.     Philadelphia,  1851. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  267 

SOULE,  (B.  L.)     A  Poem  delivered  in  Saco,  Me.,  July  4,  1839.     8°,  pp. 
19.     Saco,  1839. 

SouLE,  (E.,  Jr.)     Poems,  bound  in   '*  Memorials  of  the   Sprague   Fam- 
ily."    8°.     Boston,  1847.  ' 

South,  (C.)     Revenge.     12°,  pp.  32.     New  York,  1843. 

SoTTTHERN  Chivalry.      (Anou.)      12°,  pp.  78.     Philadelphia,  1861. 

SOUTHWICK,   (S.) 

Solomon  South  wick  was  born  in  Rhode  Island  about  the  year  1774,  and  died  at  Albany, 
N.  Y.,  ill  1839.  He  was  the  editor  of  the  Albany  Register,  and  other  papers,  and  published 
several  pamphlets. 

—  The  Pleasures  of  Poverty.     8°,  pp.  80.     Albany,  1823. 

Spaulding,  (Mrs.  A.  M.)     Patriotic  Poems.     16°,  pp.  287.     New  York, 
1866. 

Specimens  of  the  American  Poets.    8°,  pp.  xxiii,  263.    London,  1822. 

Speech  and    Songs  of  a  Greek   Indian  Against   the   Immoderate 
Use  of  Spirituous  Liquors.     8°,  pp.  68.     London,  1759. 

Spencer,  (H.  L.)     Poems.     12°,  pp.  95.     Boston,  1850. 

Sperry,  (H.  T.)       Country  Love  vs.  City  Flirtation.       Illustrated  by  A. 
Hoppin.     Sq.  12°,  pp.  90.     New  York,  1865. 

Spierin,  (G.  H.) 

Born  at  Newburg,  N.  Y.,  December  26,  1787,  of  Irish  descent,  his  father  being  an  A.  M. 
of  Trinity  College,  Dublin.  He  early  in  life  developed  poetical  talent,  and  wrote  many 
poems  which  he  destroyed.      He  died  at  the  age  of  sixteen  years  and  eight  montlis. 

—  Poems.     8°,  pp.  xviii,  211.     Charleston,  S.  C,  1805. 

Spinney,  (S.  R.)      Carmilhan  :    An   Epic  Poem.     8°,  pp.  39.     Boston, 

1870. 

Spirit  Congress,  The.     A  Poem  from  the  MS.  of  a  Maniac.      (Anon.) 
12°,  pp.  37.     New  York,  1859. 

Spirit  of  Seventy-Six.     (Anon.)     3d  Edition.     12°,  pp.  141.     Boston, 
1868. 

—  Same.      6th  Edition. 

37 


268  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

Spiuit  ok  the  Faiij.  Nos.  1-17.  Fi-om  April  oth  to  April  23,  1864. 
Published  in  the  interests  of  the  New  York  Sanitary  Fair.  4°,  pp. 
206.     New  York,  1864. 

Several  poems  in  the  volume.  Among  the  writers  nre  IJryant,  K.  H.  Stoddard,  George 
W.  (Hirtis,  Gail  Hamilton,  George  H.  lioker.  Lord  Houghton,  C.  T.  Brooks,  Bayard  Tay- 
lor, J.  R.  Lowell  and  Julia  Ward  Howe. 

Spirit,  The,  of  the  Farmers'  Museum.  A  Selection  from  the  ''  Lady 
Preacher's  Gazette."     12°,  pp.  318.     Walpole,  N.  H.,  1801. 

Spirit,  The,  of  the  Public  Journals  ;  or,  Beauties  of  the  American 
Newspapers.     For  1805.     16°,  pp.  xii,  300.     Baltimore,  1806. 

Spofford,  (Harriet  P.)     Poems.     12°,  pp.  172.     Boston,  1882. 

Born  at  Calais,  Me.,  in  1835,  was  married,  in  1865,  to  R.  S.  Spofford,  Jr.,  of  Newbury- 
port,  Mass. 

Spooner,  (Mrs.  Mary  A.)  Gathered  Leaves.  8°,  pp.  180.  New 
York,  1848. 

Sprague,  (Achsa  W.)  The  Poet,  etc.  12°,  pp.  xxiii,  304.  Boston, 
1864. 

Sprague,  (A.  W.) 

Alfred  White  Sprague  was  born  at  Oahu,  Sandwich  Islands,  and  graduated  at  Amherst 
College  in  1847.  He  wrote  articles  for  educational  journals,  and  pul)lished  "  Elements  of 
Natural  Philosophy,"  etc. 

—  "I  Still  Live."      12°,  pp.  19.     Oswego,  N.  Y.,  1862. 
Sprague,  (C.) 

Charles  Sprague  was  born  at  Boston,  October  2fi,  1791.  His  father  was  one  of  the  pat- 
riots of  Boston  who  took  part  in  the  famous  act  of  throwing  the  tea  into  the  harbor.  The 
subject  of  this  sketch  was  placed,  a  boy  of  only  thirteen,  in  a  dry  goods  mercantile  house, 
and  at  the  age  of  twenty-five  years,  became  a  partner  in  the  house  which  he  had  served  as 
an  apprentice.  When  the  Globe  Bank  was  established,  in  1825,  he  was  chosen  Cashier  of 
the  institution,  a  position  which  Ke  held  until  his  death,  January  '^1,  1875.  Sprague  has 
been  called  "  the  American  Pope  for  his  terseness,  his  finished  elegance,  his  regularity  of 
metre,  and  his  nervous  point." 

—  Curiosity,  a  Phi  Beta   Kappa  Poem,  August  27,  1829.     8°,  pp.  30. 

Boston,   1829. 

—  Ode.     September  17,  1830.     8°,  pp.  22.     Boston,  1830. 

—  Poems.      12°,  pp.  130-     New  York,  1850. 

—  Prize  Ode.     Recited  at  the  Representation  of  the  Shakspeare  Jubilee, 

February  13,  1824.     8°,  pp.  8.     No  place,  no  date. 

—  Prize  Poems,  etc.     8°,  pp.  130.     Boston,  1824. 

—  The  Poetical  and  Prose  Writings.      16°,  pp.  vii,  205.     Boston,  1850. 


AMEKICAX    POETRY.  269 

Sprague,  (C.)  —  Continued. 

—  Writings  of,  First  Collected.     Poems.     8°,  pp.  1-124.     New  York, 

1841. 

The  volume  contains  thirty-one  poems  and  two  orations:  the  one,  the  Boston  4th  of 
July,  1825,  oration,  and  the  other  on  Intemperance,  1827. 

—  Same.      2d  Edition.      16°,  pp.  58.     New  York,  1843. 

Spring  Blossoms.     Poems  written   by  a  Child  between  Six   and   Fifteen 
Years.     16°,  pp.  vi,  94.     Boston,  1854. 

Sproat,  (G.  T.)     The  Pilgrim's  Song.      18°,  pp.  90.     Taunton,  1830. 

Sproat,  (Mrs.  N.)      Village  Poems.      18°,  pp.  67.     New  York,  no  date. 

Spunkiard.      (By  an  American  Youth.)     8°,  pp.  23.     Newburgh,  1798. 

"A  Congressional  Display  of  Spit  and  Cudgel." 

Stagg,  (E.)     Poems.     12°,  pp.  259.     St.  Louis,   1852. 

Under  date  of  St.  Louis,  April,  1852,  the  author  writes  in  his  Preface  :  "  Most  of  the 
'  Earlier  Poems  '  were  written  from  twelve  to  tifteen  years  ago,  and  appeared  over  the 
initial  '  S.'  in  the  Commercial  Bulletin,  a  newspaper  then  published  in  this  city;  the  others 
were  composed  at  different  times  during  the  last  five  years." 

—  Thoughts  and  Feelings.     16°,  pp.  105.     New  York,  1847. 
Stampa,  (Gaspara.) 

Gaspara  Stampa,  an  Italian  lady,  was  born  of  Milanese  parentage,  in  Padua,  in  1553, 
removed  to  Venice  in  early  life,  where,  at  the  age  of  twenty-six,  she  became  the  affianced 
of  the  Count  of  Collato,  who,  at  the  end  of  three  years,  entered  the  service  of  Henry  II., 
and  fascinated  by  the  charms  of  the  famous  Diane  de  Poitiers'  abandoned  the  object  of  his 
early  love.  The  sonnets  translated  by  Fleming  describe  her  affection  for  her  lover  and 
the  profound  grief  into  which  she  was  plunged  by  his  abandonment  of  her.  "  They  reveal 
her  impassioned  nature,  her  anguish,  and  her  despair;  they  render  her  name  famous 
throughout  Italy.  It  was  even  said  that  no  verse  more  sweet  and  elegant  and  impassioned 
liad  ever  been  written.  It  is  the  record  of  a  heart-breaking  tragedy,  but  it  celebrates  hours 
of  triumphant  joy."    Well  has  she  been  called  "  The  Sappho  of  Venice." 

—  Memoir  of  Her  Life,  by  Eugene  Benson,  and  a  Selection   from  Her 

Sonnets,  translated  by  George    Fleming.      16°,    pp.    83.      Boston, 
1881. 

Standfast,  (R.)     Dialogue  between  a  Blind  Man  and  Death.      12°,  pp. 
16.      London  and  Boston,  no  date. 

Standisii,  (M.,  Jn.)     The  Times.     8°,  pp.  27.     Plymouth,  1809. 

Stanley,  (E.  S.)      Life's  Perilous  Places.      18°,  pp.  30.     Hartford,  1865. 

Stars  of  Columbia,  etc     (Anon.)     8°,  pp.  8.     New  York,  1813. 


270  IIAIMIIS    COLLECTION. 

Stars,  Ouk.      (Entered  by  E.  N.  Gunnison.)      Several  Poems  in  the  vol- 
ume.     12°,  pp.  120.     No  place,  18Go. 

Stars,  The,  for  the  Crown.      (Anon.)     12°,   pp.    24.     Fall  River, 
1872. 

State  Street.     A  Satire.     (Anon.)     1G°,  pp.  29.     Boston,  1874. 

Stayman,  (J.  K.) 

JohnK.  Staymau,  Professor  of  Ancient  Languages  and  Classical  Literature  in  Dicken- 
son College. 

—  Flowers  and  Fossils.      16°,  pp.  320.     Philadelphia,  1870. 
Stearks,  (C) 

Charles  Stearns  was  born  at  Leominster,  Mass.,  July  19,  175.3,  graduated  at  Harvard 
in  1773,  studied  Theology,  was  Tutor  at  Cambridge,  1780-81,  was  called,  January  15, 17S1,  to 
the  pastorate  of  the  church  in  Lincoln,  Mass.,  and  ordained  November  7,  1781.  In  1792  he 
became  Principal  of  a  school  in  the  town  where  he  was  the  minister,  remaining  in  this 
position  ten  years.  Harvard  College,  in  1810,  conlerred  on  him  the  degree  of  D.  D.  His 
ministry  in  Lincoln  continued  to  the  close  of  his  life,  July  20,  1820. 

—  Dramatic  Dialogues.      12°,  pp.  540.     Leominster,  Mass.,  1798. 

—  The  Ladies'  Philosophy  of  Love.     A  Poem  in  Four  Cantos.     Written 

in  1774.      12°,  pp.  iv,  76.     Leominster,  1797. 

In  the  Preface,  Dr.  Stearns  says  :  "When  the  Poem  was  written,  the  Author  was  in  his 
22d  year,  and  under  no  obligation  to  any  of  the  fair,  but  mere  good  will.  Since  that  time 
he  has  been  a  lover,  a  husband,  a  father  of  a  numerous  family,  a  pastor,  a  preceptor  for 
many  years  to  youth  of  both  sexes.  His  experience  has  not  disproved,  but  confirmed  his 
principles." 

A  tine  copy,  bound  in  elegant  style  by  Bedford. 

Stedman,  (E.  C.) 

Edmund  Clarence  Stedman  was  born  at  Hartford,  Conn.,  October,  8,  18.33,  and  was  a 
son  of  the  poetess,  Mrs.  E.  C.  Kinney,  by  a  former  husband ;  graduated  at  Yale  in  1853, 
removed  to  New  Y'ork  in  1855,  and  became  poetical  contributor  to  the  Tribune,  was  war 
correspondent  of  the  World,  1801-03,  studied  law,  and  since  1805  has  been  a  banker  in  New 
York.    He  takes  high  rank  among  literary  men  of  the  country. 

—  Alice  of  Monmouth.      12°,  pp.  151.     New  York,  1864. 

—  Rip  Van  Winkle,     Illustrations  by  Sol.  Eytinge,  Jr.     4°,  pp.  8.     Bos- 

ton, 1870. 

—  Poems.     12°,  pp.  viii,  196.     New  York,  1860." 

"  This  volume  is  mostly  composed  of  such  productions  as  have  stood  the  tests  of  time 
and  the  reviews,  to  which  they  have  been  subjected,  by  the  author,  in  the  earnest  desire  to 
prefer  his  art  to  himself." 

—  The  Blameless  Prince,  etc.      16°,  pp.  viii,  192.     Boston,  1869. 

—  The  Prince's  Ball.      12°,  pp.  63.     New  York,  1860. 


AMEKICAN    POETKY.  271 

Steele,  (J.  B.)     Poems.     12°.  pp.  384.     New  York,  1863. 
Steele,  (S.  S.)     Book  of  Plays.     12%  pp.  349.     Philadelphia,  1860. 

Designed  for  private  theatricals. 

—  The  Brazen  Drum.     A  National  Anthem.      18°,  pp.42.     NewY^ork, 

no  date. 

Sterne,  (S.)     Giorgio,  etc.      16°,  pp.  195.     Boston.   1881. 

—  Poems.      16°,  pp.  244.     New  Y'ork,  1875. 

Sterry,  (Abby  H.)     EfFusions.      12°,  pp.  150.     New  London,  1818. 

Stevens,   (G.  ' L.)      The   Patriot.     A  Drama.      8°,   pp.   86.      Boston, 
1834. 

Stevenson,   (D.  C.)     The  Centennial  Poems.     18°,    pp.   45.     Austin, 
1876. 

Stevenson,    (R.)     Liberal  Odes,  No.    1.      24°,   pp.    18.      New  York, 
1813. 

Stewart,  (J.  M.)     An  Essay,  etc.     16°,  pp.  vi.  62.     Norwich,  Conn., 
1852. 

Stiles,  (H.  R.,  M.  D.) 

Henry  Reed  Stiles  was  born  in  the  city  of  New  York,  Marcli  10,  1832,  was  educated  at 
the  University  of  New  York,  and  Williams  College,  and  received  the  degree  of  M.  D.  from 
the  New  Y'ork  Medical  School  in  1855,  practiced  in  Galena,  111.,  and  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  He 
has  filled  important  offices  connected  with  his  profession  in  Brooklyn  and  New  York. 

—  Bundling;    its  Origin,  Progress   and   Decline  in  America.     Sq.  16°, 

pp.  139.     Albany,  1869. 

Stillman,  (G.  a.)     Life,  Real.     12°,  pp.  137.     New  Y'ork,  1854. 

Stirling,  (E.)     The  Bloomer  Costume.     12°,   pp.    20.     New  York,  no 

date. 
Stockton,  (T.  H.) 

Thomas  Hewlings  Stockton  was  born  at  Mount  Holly,  N.  J.,  .June  4,  1808.  For  several 
years  he  was  Chaplain  in  Congress  and,  as  a  Methodist  clergyman,  had  charge  of  several 
churches.    Died  October  9,  1868. 

—  Poems.      12°,  pp.  ix,  285.     Philadelphia,  1862. 
Stoddard,  (C.  W.)     Poems.     8°,  pp.  123.     San  P'rancisco,  1867. 
Stoddard,  (R.  H.) 

Richard  Henry  Stoddard  was  born  at  Hingham,  JLiss.,  in  .July,  18l'5,  removed  to  New 
Y'ork,  and  was  a  workman  in  an  iron  foundry  in  that  city.  He  was  in  the  New  York 
Custom  House,  1852-70.    Since  1870  he  has  devoted  himself  to  literary  pursuits. 


272  IIAUKIS    COLLECTION. 

Stoddard,  (R.  H.) — Continued. 

—  Poems.     12°,  pp.  127.     Boston,  1852. 

—  Songs  of  Summer.      12°,  pp.  vii,  192.     Boston,  1857. 

—  Same.      12°,  pp.  229.     Boston,  1857. 

—  The  Book  of  the  East,  etc.      12°,  pp.  v,  249.     Boston,  1871. 

—  The  King's  BelL     12°,  pp.  72.     New  York,  1863. 

—  Same,     inustrated.     8°,  pp.  60.     New  York,  1876. 

—  The  Story  of  Putnam  the  Brave.     4°,  pp.  8.     Boston,  1869.     Illus- 

trations by  Alfred  Fredericks. 

Stokes,  (E.  H.)     Songs  of  the  Sea.     8°,  pp.  82.     Ocean  Grove,  N.  J., 
1879. 

Stories  FOR  Alice.     (Anon.)     Sq.  16°,  pp.  128.     Philadelphia,  1857. 

Storm.     A  Poem.     (By  a  Citizen  of  Philadelphia.)     18°,  pp.  123.     Phila- 
delphia, 1788. 

Vary  rare.  The  poem  describes  "  the  late  tempest  which  raged  with  such  destructive 
fury  tm-oughout  tlie  southern  parts  of  North  America  in  July,  178S." 

Story,  (I.)      (Peter  Quince,  pseud.) 

Isaac  story  was  born  at  Marblehead,  Mass.,  August  25,  17~4,  gradu.ated  at  Harvard, 
1793,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  and  practiced  in  Castine,  Me-,  and  Rutland,  Mass.  He  (!ied 
at  Marblehead  July  19,  1803.  Mr.  S.  was  a  cousin  of  the  distinguished  Judge  Joseph 
Story. 

—  A  Parnassian  Shop.     8°,  pp.  vii,  155.     Boston,  1801. 

The  following  is  given  as  the  inscription  on  the  sign-board  of  the  "  Parnassian  Shop  :" 
"  Peter's  Shop  contains  the  largest  and  most  fashionable  assortment  of  Apollo- Ware; 
beautiful  and  variegated  Odes,  by  the  yard  or  piece;  Songs  suitable  for  any  and  every 
occasion,  single  or  by  the  set;  one  crate  of  broken  Elegies,  which  can  beso  joined  together 
as  to  suit  the  vilest  and  worthiest  characters ;  also  a  few  Elastic  Trusses  —  calculated  with 
great  care  and  ingenuity  for  loose  Politicians;  one  Trepanning  Instrument  to  be  used  on 
such  persons,  only,  who  have  cracked  their  skulls  in  trying  to  pulldown  good  govern, 
ment.  A  few  bundles  of  Invitations,  Addresses,  Excuses,  Conundrums,  Whip-Syllabubs 
and  Deifications,  together  with  a  new-invented  Bib  and  Spatterdasher  for  the  sole  benefit 
and  behoof  of  Slovenly  Critics. 

"  Besides  the  above  mentioned  articles,  Peter  has  a  more  pleasing  and  diversified 
assortment  in  his  large  Ware-House,  which  will  be  opened  as  soon  as  Apollo- Ware  be- 
comes more  fashionable.  Peter  keeps  constantly  for  sale,  in  the  back  part  of  his  shop, 
Parnassian-Trinkets,  Heliconian-spouts  and  Pegassuses  on  truckles,  for  the  accommoda- 
tion of  young  and  lame  Poetasters;  also  a  very  ingenious  Spinning-Wlieel,  which  will 
turn  oft"  Epic-Poems  of  any  length  and  on  any  subject,  with  the  utmost  ease  and  dispatch; 
besides  furnishing  them  with  glossaries  and  obsolete  quotations,  all  of  which  will  be  sold 
on  the  most  reasonable  terms  for  cash  or  short  credit.  Peddlars  and  Ballad-Singers  may 
depend  on  making  good  bargains  and  receiving  ample  encouragement,  at  said  back  apart- 
ment, where  they  will  find  a  number  of  heavy  moulded  geniusses  eternally  at  pen  nibbing. 
Peter  has  with  much  care  and  expense  procured  a    curious  and  complicated    Water- 


AMEEICAX    POETET.  273 

Storv,  (I.)      (Feter  (Jluince,  p^end.)  —  Continued. 

Machine  for  grinding  witli  astonishing  rapidity  liard  and  cramp  phrases  into   Epitaphs, 
Rebusses,  Epigrams,  Catclies,  Love  rill?,  Dying  Psalms  and  Wit-Crackers :  —  tliese  are 
sold  by  tlie  groce  or  box,  to  Country  Traders  at  a  reduced  price." 
"  N.  B.    Cash  and  the  highest  price  given  for  new  ideas." 

Story,  (J:) 

Joseph  Story  was  born  at  Marbleliead,  Mass.,  September  IS,  1779,  and  was  a  graduate 
of  Harvard,  1798,  admitted  to  tlie  bar  1801,  appointed  Associate  Justice  of  the  United 
States  Supreme  Court,  November  18,  1811.  He  was  cliosen  Dane  Professor  of  Law,  Har- 
vard Law  School,  June  11,  1829.    He  died  September  10,  1845.    (See  Allibone,  pp.  2273-75.) 

—  The  Power  of  Solitude.     8°,  pp.  100.     Boston,  no  date.     1802[?] 

In  the  "  Proem  "  to  this  poem  tlie  author  says  :  "  In  the  following  poem  the  pertinent 
division  of  Zimmerman  is  adopted  as  uniting  elegance  and  method.  Wherever  the 
author  has  been  sensible  of  imitation  he  has  given  full  credit.  Probably  much  has  escaped 
his  notice,  as  similarity  of  thought  on  a  subject  which  has  incidentally  claimed  attention 
from  almost  every  poetic  genius  is  as  unavoidable  as  it  is  congenial.  Illustrations  have 
sometimes  been  caught  from  other  compositions,  but  only  when  their  features  admitted  of 
enlargement,  or  required  new  colorings  to  mark  the  outlines  of  analogy.  Allusion  is 
admitted  in  digression  to  give  variety  to  a  subject  whose  details  are  almost  necessarily 
uniform.  In  fine,  it  was  the  author's  design  to  avoid  equally  sterility  of  incident  and 
exuberance  of  ornament— whether  this  be  accomplished,  tlie  reader  must  be  determined." 

—  Same.      2d  Edition.     Witli  Fugitive  Poems.      16°,  pp.  260.     Salem, 

1804. 

Story,  The,  of  ^neas  and  Dido  Burlesqued.  From  the  Fourth 
Book  of  the  ^neid  of  Virgil.  (Anon.)  18°,  pp.  94.  Charles- 
town,  1784. 

Story,  (W.  W.) 

William  Wetmore  story,  son  of  Judge  Joseph  Story,  was  born  at  Salem,  Mass.,  Feb- 
ruary 19,  1819,  graduated  at  Harvard  1838,  studied  law  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar. 
Preferring  to  be  an  artist,  he  abandoned  his  profession,  went  to  Rome  in  1848,  and  has 
made  that  city  his  permanent  home.    He  takes  the  highest  rank  among  sculptors. 

—  A   Roman  Lawyer   in   Jerusalem.       First  Century.       16°,    pp.    32. 

Boston,  1870. 
_  Graffiti  d'ltalia.     16°,  pp.  412.     New  York,  1868. 

—  Nature  and  Art.     Phi  Beta  Kappa  Poem,  Harvard,  August  29,  1844. 

Boston,  1844. 

—  Poems.      12°,  pp.  viii,  249.     Boston,  1847. 

—  Same.     12°,  pp.  307.     Boston,  1856. 
Stowe,  (Harriet  B.) 

She  was  born  at  Litchfield,  Conn.,  June  14,  1812,  was  associated  for  several  years  with 
her  sister  Catherine  in  teaching  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  and  was  married,  in  18.32,  to  Professor 
C.  E.  Stowe,  then  of  Lane  Semin.iry,  Cincinnati.  Her  most  successful  work  is  "Uncle 
Tom's  Cabin."     (See  Allibone,  pp.  2278-80.) 

—  Religious  Poems.      12°,  pp.  107.     Boston,  1867. 


274  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

Stray  Leaves.     (By  S.  B.  P.     Anon.)     Sq.  18°,  pp.  xi,  85.     No  place, 
no  date. 

Street,  (A.  B.) 

Alfred  Billings  Street  was  born  at  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y.,  in  1811.  In  1839  he  removed  to 
Albany,  where  he  practiced  law.    For  many  years  he  has  held  the  post  of  State  Librarian. 

—  A  Poem  Delivered  at  the  Pittsfield  Yoiinir  Ladies'  Institute.     8°,    pp. 

8.     Albany,  1852. 

—  Drawings  and  Tintings.     4°,  pp.  48.     New  York,  1844. 

—  Frontenac.     12°,  pp.  xiii,  327.     London,  1849. 

The  "  Eclectic  Magazine,"  June,  1849,  alludes  to  Frontenac  as  "  a  poem  of  singular 
power  and  beauty." 

—  Same.     12°,  pp.  324.     New  York,  1849. 

—  Poems.     Complete  Edition.     8°,  pp.  319.     New  York,  1845. 

—  Same.     2  vols.     12°,  pp.  v,  302,  338.     New  York,  1867. 

Streeter,  (R.  M.)      Poem.     Class   Day,   Brown   University,   June   15, 
1865.     Lg.  8°,  pp.  15.     Providence,  1865. 

Stribling,  (B.  F.  W.)     Poems.     Sq.   16°,   pp.    233.     Beardstown,  111., 
1857. 

Stroxg,  (G.  a.)      (Under  the  pseud.,  Marc  Anthony  Henderson.) 

George  A.  Strong,  a  Professor  in  Kenyon  College. 

—  The  Song  of  Milkanwatha.     2d  Edition.      12°,  pp.  viii,   144.     Cin- 

cinnati,  1856. 

Strong,  (T.)     The  Tears  of  Columbia.     8°,  pp.  32.     Dedliam,  1812. 

Strother,  (J.  H.)      The  Golden  Calf;  or,  The   Almighty  Dollar.      12°, 
pp.  32.     New  York,  1854. 

The  author's  presentation  copy  to  R.  W.  Griswold. 

Struggle  FOR  Existence."     (By  Gavilan  Peak,  Pope[?])      12°,  pp.  72. 
NeAV  York,  1872. 

Stcart,  (CD.) 

Carlos  D.  Stuart  was  born  at  Berlin,  Vt.,  July  28,  1820,  went  to  New  ITork  in  1840,  and 
devoted  himself  to  literary  pursuits.  For  a  time  he  was  a  Universalist  preacher.  He  was 
co-editor  of  the  X'eiv  York  Sun,  1843-53,  and  established  the  Xew  Yorker,  was  for  a  time 
connected  with  the  Xeio  York  Mirror.    He  died  at  Northampton,  Mass.,  in  February,  1862. 

—  lanthe,  etc.      12°,  pp.  224.     New  York,  1843. 

Students,  The.     A  Drama.      (Anon.)     8°,  pp.  108.     New  York,  1850. 


AMEKICAN    POETRY.  275 

Studies,  Winter.     (Anon.)      18°,  pp.  43.     Philadelphia,  1856. 

Stump,  (Judge.)     The  Battle  of  Cannae.     8°,  pp.  54.     Baltimore,  1856. 

Suicide,  The.     A  Dialogue  at  Yale,  September  13,  1797.     12°,  pp.  20. 
Litchfield,  no  date. 

Summer  Songs.     (By  H.  M.  M.)     12°,  pp.  108.     Philadelphia,  1865. 

Sumner,  (C.  P.) 

Charles  Pinckney  Sumner  was  born  at  Milton,  Mass.,  January  20, 17~0,  graduated  at 
Harvard  1796,  studied  law,  appointed  High  Slieriffof  the  county  of  Suffokl,  in  1S25,  and 
held  office  nearly  to  the  time  of  his  death,  April  24,  1839.  He  was  the  father  of  Charles 
Sumner. 

—  The    Compass.     A   Poetical    Performance    at    Harvard    University, 

September,  1795.      12°,  pp.  12.     Boston,  no  date. 

Superstition  Detected.      (Anon.)     12°,  pp.  24.     Philadelphia,  1831. 

This  play  comprises  "a  comic  narrative  of  his  conviction  and  condemnation,  together 
with  his  last  will  and  confession.  By  a  Connecticut  Brickmaker."  To  which  is  added, 
"  The  Downfall  of  Despotism."  A  Poem.  Tlie  work  is  designed  to  ridicule  the  orthodox 
doctrines  of  Satanic  influence  and  future  retribution.  The  "persome  dramatis"  are 
"AROZAN,  a  young  collegian  just  entered  upon  the  ministry,  emblematical  of  ecclesiasti- 
cal tyranny.  MATILDA,  mother  of  the  young  clergyman,  wliose  future  prospects  and 
support  depended  on  his  success.  HONDORUS  exposes  their  fallacy  in  lively  colours  and 
demonstratively  shows  that  religious  liberty  is  as  necessary  to  our  happiness  in  this  world 
as  civil  liberty,  and  being  deprived  of  either  is  an  outrage  on  the  human  character." 

Sutherland,  (J.  T.) 

The  author  was  imprisoned  for  an  infraction  of  the  neutrality  law  in  the  famous  Navy 
Island  expedition,  in  18.37,  against  the  constituted  authorities  of  the  Canadas.  He  became 
a  prisoner  March  4,  1838,  in  the  citadel.    In  the  volume  are  two  or  three  short  poems. 

—  Loose  Leaves  from  the  Portfolio  of  a  late  Prisoner  in  Canada.      12°, 

pp.  36.     New  Y^ork,  1839. 
Suttliffe,  (A.)     Poems.     12°,  pp.  144.     Boston,  1859. 
Swan,  (C.)     The   Petapsco.     2d   Edition.      12°,    pp.    144.     Baltimore, 

1842. 
Swan,  (J.  R.)     The  Prophecy  of  the  Santon,  etc.     12°,  pp.  116.     Wor- 

cester,  1847. 

"  The  Prophecy  of  the  Santon  "  was  suggested  by  reading  the  fallowing  from  Irving's 
Conquest  of  Granada:  "Wo!  wo!  wo!  to  Granada!  exclaimed  the  voice;  its  hour  of 
desolation  approaches.  The  ruins  of  Zahara  will  fall  upon  our  heads;  my  spirit  tells  me 
that  the  end  of  our  empire  is  at  hand.  All  shrunk  back  aghast  and  left  the  denouncer  of 
woe  standing  alone  in  the  centre  of  the  hall.  He  was  (says  the  Arabian  historians)  one 
of  those  holy  men  termed  Santons,  who  pass  their  lives  in  hermitages,  in  fasting,  medita- 
tion, and  prayer,  until  they  attain  to  the  purity  of  saints  and  the  foresight  of  prophets." 

38 


27()  HAKIMS    COLLECTION. 

Swan  WICK,  (J.) 

John  Sw:iinvicl>  \v:is  elected  a  Uepresentative  from  rennsylvania  in  tlie  Fourth  Con- 
gress, was  re-elected  to  the  Fifth  Congress,  serving  from  December  7, 17!»5,  to  1798,  when 
he  died. 

The  author  of  the  volume  referred  to  below  says  :  "  One  i)art  of  life  is  usually  passed 
in  reviewing  the  other;  the  Ibllowing  poems  were  written  in  that  early  period  of  it,  on 
which  we  are  accustomed  to  look  back  with  more  than  usual  pleasure.  They  are  collected 
in  a  volume  as  memorials  of  persons  and  of  scenes  that  recall  tlie  most  grateful  sensations 
to  the  mind;  they  demand  no  praise,  having  never  been  professedly  written  to  obtain  it, 
and  they  hope  to  escape  censure  as  tritles  by  which  the  cares  of  a  busy  life  were  diverted 
or  assuaged." 

—  Poems.     Sin.  24%  pp.  174.     Philadelphia,  1797. 

SwAYZE,  (Mhs.  J.  C.)  Ossawattomie  Brown.  12°,  pp.  27.  New 
York.  1859. 

SwEEXFA-,  (R.)     Oilds  and  Ends.      12°,  pp.  156.     New  York,  1826. 

Sweet,  (J.  P.)     Lake  George.      12°,  pp.  55.     New  York,  1863. 

SwEETSER,  (H.  P.)  Poem.  Annual  Excursion  of  the  Carpet  (Boston) 
Dealers,  June  26,  1869.     A  leaflet  of  4  pages. 

Sybelle,  etc.     By  L.      (Anon.)      12°,  pp.  192.     New  York,  1862. 

Table  Rock  Album,  and  Sketches  of  the  Falls  and  Scenery 
Adjacent.     8d  Edition.     12°,  pp.  108.     Buffalo,  1850. 

Tabl?:t,  a  Family.  A  Selection  of  Original  Poetry.  (Anon.)  16°, 
pp.  81.     Boston,   179G. 

Taggart,  (Cynthia.) 

She  was  born  in  Rhode  Island  in  1801,  her  father  having  been  a  Revolutionary  sol- 
dier, w'ho  was  reduced  to  poverty  while  the  British  troops  were  on  the  island.  Her  life 
was  one  of  protracted  physical  sutfering,  which  she  bore  with  remarkable  fortitude  and 
Christian  resignation.    She  died  March  23,  1840. 

—  Poems.      12°,  pp.  xxii,  98.     Providence,   1834. 

Tainter,  (E.  C.)  The  Battle  of  Freedom.  A  Greek  Poem  delivered  at 
Commencement,  Union  College,  July  23,  1863.  8°,  65  lines. 
Printed  at  Shanghai,  China,  1874. 

Tait,  (J.  R.) 

.John  R.  Tait  was  born  at  Cincinnati  in  1834,  and  was  a  graduate  of  Bethany  College, 
Va.    He  was  the  editor  of  a  magazine  published  at  Bethany,  entitled  "  The  Stylus."    In 
,  1800  he  published  "  Life,  Legend  and  Landscape." 

—  Dolce  Far  Niente,  etc.      16°,  pp.  75.     Philadelphia,  1859. 


AMEKICAX    POETKY.  277 

Talboys,  (\V.  P.)      The  Story  of  Don  Sebastian.     8%  pp.  8.     Noplace, 
no  date. 

Talisman,  The.     18°,  pp.  x,  342.     New  York,  1838. 

"The  Talisman"  was  continued  three  years,  its  contributors  being  G.  C.  Verplanclj, 
W.C.Bryant.  R.  C.  Sands,  etc.  The  "  Dream  of  the  Princess  Papantzin,"  p.  291,  was 
written  by  Sands.    One  or  two  other  poems  are  bound  up  in  tliis  volume. 

Talley,  (Susan  A.) 

A  native  of  Virginia,  who  became  deaf  at  tlie  age  of  nine.  Site  was  an  artist  as  well 
as  poet. 

—  Poems.      16°,  pp.  183.     New  York,  1859. 
Taney,  (R.  B.) 

In  "  The  Harris  Collection  "  is  a  copy  of  the  poems  of  Francis  S.  Key,  the  author  of 
"The  Star  Spangled  Banner."  The  volume  is  the  beautiful  edition  published  in  New 
York  by  Robert  Carter  &  Brothers,  1857,  and  was  among  the  books  added  by  Senator 
•  Anthony  to  the  "Collection."  In  the  introduction  is  a  letter  from  Hon.  Chief  Justice 
Taney,  narrating  the  incidents  connected  with  the  origin  of  the  song.  It  may  not  be  out 
of  place  in  these  notes  to  relate  these  incidents  by  condensing  the  facts  as  they  are  given 
by  Judge  Taney. 

A  prominent  gentleman.  Dr.  Beanes,  residing  in  Upper  Marlboro',  Md.,  had  been  made 
a  prisoner  in  ISH  by  the  British,  and  taken  to  Baltimore  and  placed  on  board  one  of  the 
ships  of  the  English  tleet.  Mr.  Key  undertook  to  procure  the  release  of  his  Iriend.  As 
preparations  were  now  making  to  attack  Fort  McHenry,  Key  was  sent  on  board  the  vessel 
in  which  he  had  come  to  Baltimore,  accompanied  by  Dr.  Beanes,  whose  release  he  had 
obtained.  They  were  not  suffered,  however,  to  sail  away  or  to  land,  a  guard  of  soldiers 
preventing  them.  The  vessel  was  anchored  in  a  position  which  enabled  them  to  see  dis- 
tinctly the  flag  of  the  fort  from  the  deck.  They  remained  on  deck  during  the  whole  night, 
watching  every  shell  from  the  moment  it  was  fired,  until  it  fell.  AVith  breathless  interest 
they  listened  to  hear  if  an  explosion  followed.  Suddenly,  not  long  before  daylight,  while 
it  was  too  dark  to  see  distinctly,  the  firing  ceased.  Whether  the  enemy  had  given  up  the 
att.ack,  or  had  been  successful  and  the  fort  had  surrendered,  they  had  no  means  of  know- 
ing. Judge  Taney  says  "they  paced  the  deck  for  the  residue  of  the  night  in  painful  sus- 
pense, watching  with  intense  anxiety  for  the  return  of  day,  and  looking  every  few  min- 
utes at  their  watches  to  see  how  long  they  must  wait  for  it ;  and  as  soon  as  it  dawned, 
and  before  it  was  light  enough  to  see  objects  at  a  distance,  their  glasses  were  turned  to  the 
fort,  uncertain  whether  they  should  see  the  stars  and  stripes,  or  the  flag  of  the  enemy.  At 
length  the  light  came,  and  they  saw  tliat  '  our  flag  was  there.'  He  proceeds  to  relate  the 
story  of  Mr.  Key  as  he  told  him  personally  of  the  circumstances  under  which  '  The  Star 
Spangled  Banner'  was  written.  He  said  to  the  Judge  that  he  had,  under  the  excitement 
of  the  hour,  written  a  song,  and,  remarked  Mr.  T.,  "  he  handed  me  a  printed  copy  "  of  the 
same.  When  I  had  read  it  and  expressed  my  admiration,  I  asked  him  how  he  found  time, 
in  the  scenes  he  had  been  passing  through,  to  compose  such  a  song?  He  said  he  com. 
menceil  it  on  the  deck  of  their  vessel,  in  the  fervor  of  the  moment,  when  he  saw  the  enemy 
retreating  to  their  sliips,  and  looked  at  the  flag  he  had  watched  for  so  anxiously  as  the 
morning  opened;  that  he  had  written  some  lines,  or  brief  notes,  that  would  aid  him  in 
calling  them  to  mind,  upon  the  back  of  a  letter  which  he  happened  to  have  in  his  pocket; 
and  for  some  of  the  lines,  as  he  proceeded,  he  was  obliged  to  rely  on  his  memory;  and 
that  he  finished  it  in  the  boat  on  his  way  to  the  shore,  and  wrote  it  out  as  it  now  stands, 
at  the  hotel,  on  tlie  night  he  reached  Baltimore,  and   immediately  after  he  arrived.    He 


278  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

Taney,  (R.  B,)— Contiimed. 

said  that  on  the  next  morning  he  took  it  to  Judge  Nicholson  to  ask  him  wliat  he  thought 
of  it;  that  lie  was  so  much  pleased  witli  it  that  he  immediately  sent  it  to  a  printer,  and 
directed  copies  to  be  struck  oft"  in  handbill  form." 

The  music  for  this  national  hymn  was  arranged  by  A.  W.  Berg. 

Tappan,  (W.  B.) 

William  Brigham  Tappan  was  born  at  Beverly,  Mass.,  October  2'.),  1794.  For  si.x  years 
he  was  engaged  in  teaching.  In  1826  he  removed  to  Boston  and  became  general  agent  of 
the  American  Sunday  School  Union  for  New  England.  He  died  of  cholera  at  Grantville 
(Needham),  Mass.,  June  20,  1849. 

—  Late  nnd  Early  Poems.     32°,  pp.  25G.     Worcester,  1849. 

—  Lyrics.     12°,  pp.  252.     Philadelphia  and  New  York,  1822. 

—  Lyric  Poems.      16°,  pp.  140.     Philadelphia,  1826. 

—  Missions.     32°,  pp.  32.     Boston,  1838. 

—  New  England.     18°,  pp.  108.     Philadelphia,  1819. 

—  Poems.      12°,  pp.  x,  252.     Philadelphia,  1822. 

—  Same.     18°,  pp.  xvi,  324.     Philadelphia  and  Boston,  1836. 

—  Same.     2  vols.     pp.  360,  324.     Philadelphia  and  Boston,  1836. 

—  Poems  and  Lyrics.     16°,  pp.  264.     Boston,  1842. 

—  Poetry  of  Lite.     16°,  pp.  304.     Boston,  1848. 

—  Poetry  of  the  Heart.     32°,  pp.  256.     Troy,  1846. 

—  Sacred  and  Miscellaneons  Poems.     8°,  pp.  332.     Boston,  1847. 

—  Songs  of  Judah,  etc.      18°,  pp.  xi,  204.     Philadelphia,  1820. 

—  The  Daughter  of  the  Lsles.     32°,  pp.  352.     Boston,  1844. 

—  The  Memento.     32°,  pp.  128.     Boston,  1849. 

—  The  Poet's  Trihute.      16°,  pp.  324.     Boston,  1840. 

—  The  Sunday  School,  etc.     16°,  pp.  251.     Boston,  1848. 

Tardy  George.     (Anon.)     4°,  pp.  4.     New  York,  1865. 

Privately  printed.    Sixty  copies. 

Tayeau,  (A.  L.) 

A  poet  of  Charleston,  S.  C,  who  wrote  under  the  signature  of  "  Alton." 

—  Magic  Word,  The.      (By  Alton,  ijseud.)     16°,  pp.  iv,  183.     Boston 

and  Cambridge,  1855.  • 

Tayleupe,  (C.  W.)  Horseshoe  Robinson;  or,  The  Battle  of  King's 
Mountain,  A  Legendary  Patriotic  Drama.  12°,  pp.  40.  New 
York,  no  date. 

—  The  Boy  Martyrs.     12°,  pp.  30.     Boston,  1859. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  279 

Taylor,  (B.) 

Bayard  (named  when  an  infant  James  Bayard  Taylor)  was  the  son  of  a  Pennsylvania 
farmer,  and  was  born  January  11,  1825,  in  the  village  of  Kenneth  Square,  Chester  county, 
Penn.  His  early  education  was  limited.  He  was  indentured  at  the  age  of  seventeen  in  a 
printing  offlce  at  Westchester.  Early  in  life  he  began  to  write  poems  which  were  pub- 
lished in  the  "New  York  Mirror"  and  "  Graham's  Magazine."  When  a  young  man  the  pas- 
sion for  foreign  travel  seized  him,  and  having  saved  forty  dollars  from  money  paid  for  his 
poetical  productions,  and  having  received  one  hundred  dollars  in  advance  for  letters  to  be 
written  from  abroad  for  the  United  States  Gazette  and  tlie  Saturday  Evening  Post,  he 
commenced  his  tour  in  the  old  world.  With  some  remittances  from  home  added  to  the 
above,  he  was  able  to  remain  abroad  for  two  years,  making  pedestrian  tours  through 
the  prominent  countries  of  Europe,  mostly  on  foot,  his  expenses  being  but  five  hundred 
dollars.  For  several  years  after  his  return  he  was  engaged  in  literary  pursuits,  and  held 
for  some  time  an  important  position  on  the  editorial  staff  of  the  New  York  Tribune,  and 
was  the  correspondent  of  that  jiaper  wliile  making  an  extended  tour  in  Europe  and  Asia 
and  Africa  of  upwards  of  fifty  thousand  miles  of  travel,  during  an  absence  from  the  United 
States  of  two  years  and  four  months.  He  published  his  travels  in  several  instructive  and 
entertaining  volumes.  Subsequently  he  made  other  tours  in  the  old  world.  In  1862  he 
was  appointed  Secretary  to  the  American  Legation  at  the  Court  of  St.  Petersburg,  and  in 
186.3  performed  the  duties  of  Charge  d'Affaires.  In  February,  1878,  he  was  sent  to  Berlin 
as  Minister  to  Germany,  and  died  December  19th  of  that  year. 

—  A  Book  of  Romances,  Lyrics  and   Songs.       12°,  pp.  153.     Boston, 

1858. 

—  Home   Pastorals,    Ballads    and    Lyrics.      16°,  pp.  vi,  214.     Boston, 

1875. 

—  Lars  :  A  Pastoral  of  Norway.      16°,  pp.  144.     Boston,  1873. 

—  National  Ode.     4°,  pp.  12.     July  4,  1876. 

Fac  simile  of  the  manuscript  by  heliotype  process. 

—  Poems  of  the  Orient.     5th  Edition.      16°,  pp.  203.     Boston,  1855. 

—  The  Ballad  of  Abraham  Lincoln.     Illustrations  by  Ey tinge.     4°,  pp.  8. 

Boston,  1870. 

—  The  Pictiu-e  of  St.  John.      16°,  pp.  vi,  220.     Boston,  1866. 

—  The  Poet's  Journal.      12°,  pp.  iv,  204.     Boston,  1863. 

—  Translation  of  G^the's  Faust.     The  Second  Part.     Lg.  8°,  pp.  xvi, 

556.     Boston,  1871. 

—  Ximena  ;  or,  The  Battle  of  the  Sierra   Morena,   and   other  Poems. 

16°,  pp.  vi,  84.     Philadelphia,  1844. 

Taylor,  (B.  F.,  LL.  D.) 

Benjamin  Franklin  Taylor  was  born  at  Louisville,  X.  Y.,  in  1822,  and  graduated  at 
Madison  University.  As  a  journalist  he  has  been  connected  with  the  Neio  York  Tribune 
and  tlie  Chicago  Evening  Journal,  and  has  acquired  a  high  reputation  at  the  West  as  a 
lecturer. 


280  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

Taylor,  (B.  F.,  LL.D.)  — Continued. 

—  Duloe  Doniiim  ;  the   Burden  of  the   Song.      8°,  pp.  159.     Chicago, 

1884. 

—  Okl-Time  Picture  and  Sheaves  of  Rhyme.     1G°,  pp.  194.     Chicago, 

1874. 

The  following  is  the  brief  but  graceful  preface  to  this  volume  : 

"  Set  adrift  in  the  newspapers  like  thistle-down  in  the  fall  wind,  a  few  poems  of  mine- 
have  '  lodged  '  at  last  between  the  lids  of  a  book. 

"  Never  thinking  seriously  about  it  until  it  was  too  late  to  think  at  all,  I  find  myself 
fearing  that  their  meaning  to  me  is  a  sort  of  personal  property  I  cannot  make  over  to  any- 
body, and  that  I  should  have  slipped  them  in  among  the  leaves  of  the  Family  Record, 
between  the  book  of  Malachi  and  the  gospel  according  to  St.  Mattliew,  as  being  the  very 
place  in  a  world  of  sinners  about  the  safest  from  perusal. 

"  A  friend  once  sent  me  some  withered  pansies,  but  he  brightened  and  humanized  the 
faded  things  by  writing  a  single  line  :  '  From  the  grave  of  Hamlet,  Prince  of  Denmark.' 
Ah!  how  beautiful  tliey  turned,  and  what  treasures  they  became! 

"  Less  fortunate  than  the  pansies,  this  sheaf  of  rhymes  has  nobody  to  write  the  single 
line:  'Only  this.'  I  suspect  one  or  two  of  them  of  being  better  than  I  once  thought, 
because  several  clever  people  have  stolen  them  and  never  returned  them." 

Taylor,  (Mrs.  J.  M.)      Mott's  Party,  etc.     12°,  pp.  50.     Hohuesburg, 
1872. 

Taylor,  (R.  H.)     A  Remembrancer.     8°,  pp.  30.     New  York,  1848. 

—  Poems.     Sq.  8°,  pp.  126.     New  York,  1848. 

Taylor,  (S.  W.)     The   Storming  of  Quebec.     18°,  pp.  126.     Philadel- 
phia, 1829. 

This  little  volume  belonged  to  the  department  of  American  Poetry  and  Plays  in  the 
library  of  Judge  Greene,  and  was  purchased  at  tlie  sale  of  the  library  of  Rev.  Dr.  R.  W. 
Griswold.  We  have  been  unable  to  obtain  any  information  respecting  the  author,  except 
that  his  name  was  Samuel  W.  Taylor. 

Taylor,   (V.)     Things   as   Tliey  Will   Be.     2d  Edition.     18°,  pp.  17. 
New  York,  1819. 

Tegner,  (E.) 

Esaias  Tegner,  tlie  son  of  a  Swedish  clergyman,  was  born  in  1782,  and  graduated  at 
the  University  of  Lund  in  1803,  with  the  highest  honors  of  his  class.  A  few  years  later  he 
was  appointed  Protessor  of  Greek  in  his  native  University,  and  at  the  same  time  entered 
the  Swedish  Churcli.  In  1824  he  was  elected  Bisliop  of  Wexioo,  and  expended  his  chiefest 
energies  in  the  labors  of  his  diocese.  He  had  tendencies  to  mental  abenation  which 
finally  resulted  in  temporary  insanity.  Recovering  the  use  of  his  reason,  he  wiis  able  to 
attend  to  his  Episcopal  duties  for  a  time.  He  resigned  his  oHice  in  1845,  and  died  the  year 
following.  Fridthjof,  or  Frithiof,  was  the  son  of  Thorsten,  King  Bele's  bravest  and  nittst 
trusty  chieftain.  In  this  volume  we  have  the  "  Sega,"  that  is,  the  say,  or  tale,  of  his 
romantic  life. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  281 

Tegner,    (E.)  —  Continued. 

—  Fridthjofs  Saga  :  a  Norse  Romance.     Translated  from  the  Swedish  by 

T.  A.  E.  and  M.  A.  L.  Holcomb.    12°,  pp.  xiii,  213.    Chicago,  1877. 

A  translation  of  the  same,  with  illustrations,  was  made  by  L.  A.  Sherman,  Ph.  D.,  and 
published  in  an  elegant  4°  volume,  pp.  xiii,  238,  by  James  R.  Osgood  &  Co.,  Boston,  1S78 
A  copy  of  this  beautiful  edition  is  in  "  The  Harris  Collection." 

Tellez,  (Mrs.A.)    Reunedo.    3d  Edition.    12°.  pp.  234.   New  Yoi-k,  1864. 

Temple,  (C.  C.)     Popular  Delusions.     8°,  pp.  36.     Boston,  1857. 

Temple,  (N.)  AND  Trevor,   (E.)     TannhJiuser  ;  or,  The  Battle  of  the 
Bards.     8°,  pp.  xi,  125.     Mobile,  1865. 

Terry,  (J.  O.) 

John  Orville  Terry  resided  at  Orient,  SufTolIc  county.  Long  Island. 

—  Poems.      18°,  pp.  292.     New  York,  1850. 

This  volume  consists  of  Songs,  Satire  and  Pastoral  Descriptions,  chietly  depicting  the 
scenery  and  illustrating  the  manners  and  customs  of  the  ancient  and  present  inhabitants 
of  Long  Island.    It  is  dedicated  to  Thaddeus  B.  Glover,  Esq. 

Terry,  (Eose.)     (Mrs.  Rollix  Cooke.) 

She  was  born  at  West  Hartford,  Conn.,  February  17,  1827,  and  married,  187-3,  Mr.  R 
H.  Cooke,  of  AVinsted,  Conn.  "  Most  of  her  writings  are  short  tales  of  great  power  and 
literary  merit." 

—  Poems.      16°,  pp.  231.     Boston,  1861. 

Thacher,  (W.)     a  Battle  between  Truth  and  Error.     Sm,  12°,  pp.  vi, 
48.     Middletown,  Conn. 

A  poetical  attack  on  what  are  regarded  as  "  the  fierce  doctrines  of  Calvinism." 

Thalatta.      (Names  of  Compilers  not  given.)     A  Book  for  the  Seaside. 
12°,  pp.  206.     Boston,  1853. 

It  is  understood  that  the  compilation  was  made  by  .S.  Longfellow  and  T.  W.  Higginson. 

Thatcher,  (B.  B.) 

Benjamin  Bussoy  Thatcher  was  born  at  Warren,  Me.,  in  1809,  gr.aduated  at  Bowdoin 
College  in  1820,  studied  law,  but  did  not  practice,  preferring  to  devote  himself  to  literary 
pursuits.  He  was,  says  Mr.  Tuckerman,  "an  indefatigable  ^'riter,  always  engaged  upon 
a  review,  a  lecture,  a  book,  newspaper,  magazine,  or  some  other  literary  enterprise." 
He  was  a  frequent  contrilnitor  to  the  "North  American  Review"  when  Alexander  H. 
Everett  was  its  editor.  He  was  editor,  for  a  time,  of  the  "  Colonizationist,"  wrote  for 
"  Harper's  Family  Library,"  the  "  Lives  of  the  Indians  "  and  "  Indian  Traits  "  for  their 
"Juvenile  Series."  He  visited  Euroi)e  18.'ir)-.38,  and  wrote  for  the  papers  in  this  country 
interesting  sketches  of  liis  travels  and  his  intercourse  with  distinguished  individuals 
whom  he  met  in  the  old  world.  Not  long  after  his  return  home  he  died,  the  event  taking 
place  at  Boston,  July  14,  1840.  There  is  a  fine  engraving  of  him  in  the  "  History  of  Bow- 
doin College,"  p.  ;i5(i. 


2S2  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

Thatcheu  (R.  B.)  — Cordinucd. 

—  Tlie  Boston  Book.      12°,  pp.  360.     Boston,  1837. 

Editions  of  the  same,  1841  and  1850,  tlie  first  of  whicli,  viz.,  1841,  was  edited  by  George 
S.  Hilliird.    Mr.  Tiiatcher  edited  the  volume  for  1837. 

Thaxter,  (A.  W.) 

Adam  Wallace  Thaxter  was  born  at  Boston  in  1832,  graduated  at  Harvard  in  1852,  and 
from  the  Dane  Law  School  in  1854.  He  died  in  1804.  He  wrote  several  plays.  For  sev- 
eral years  he  was  co-editor  of  the  Boston  Evening  Gazette.  For  some  time  previous  to  his 
death  he  liad  been  engaged  upon  two  historical  works,  "  Rebellions  that  were  Failures," 
and  "The  Bastards  of  History." 

—  A  Poem.      16°,  pp.  38.     Cambridge,  1850. 

Thaxter,  (Celia.)     Poems.     18°,  pp.  viii,  188.     New  York,  1874. 

—  Poems  for  Children.     Illustrated.      Lg.   8°,  pp.  153.     Boston,  1884. 
Theresa,  (a  pseud.) 

The  author,  in  her  preface  to  the  readers  of  her  little  volume,  says :  "  It  will  be  unnec- 
essary to  inform  you  that  I  wear  the  breeches,  and  that  my  husband  wears  petticoats; 
that  I  hold  the  purse-strings,  and  that  lie  holds  his  tongue;  that  I  say  what  I  choose,  and 
that  he  chooses  what  I  say."  She  dedicates  her  work  to  Dr.  Timothy  Syllogism,  her  hus- 
band : 

"  TIMOTHEO  SYLLOGISMO 

VIKO 

PETTICOATISSIMO. 

HOC   POEMA 

AD  AARIOS  MODOS, 

IN  DOMINANDO  VIRO, 

NECESSARIOS. 

LEPIDE  9PECTANS, 

SDO  MARITO 

niCAT,   DEDICATQUE 

UXOR  BKKECHISSIMA, 

THURESA." 

—  The  Breechiad.     16°,  pp.  22.     Boston,  1807. 

Thomas,  (C.)     Soin  de  la  Patrie.     8°,  pp.  9.     San  Francisco,  1869. 
Thomas,  (D.) 

Daniel  Thomas  was  born  at  Middleborough,  Mass.,  graduated  at  Brown  University  in 
1803,  was  ordained  in  1808  minister  of  the  church  in  South  Abington,  Mass.,  and  was  in 
office  till  his  death  in  184*. 

—  A  Poem.     8°,  pp.  12.     Wrentham,  Mass.,  1802. 

Thomas,  (Edith  M.)      A   New   Year's    Masque,   etc.      12°,   pp.   138. 

Boston,  1885. 
Thomas,   (F.  AV.) 

Frederic  William  Thomas  was  born  at  Charleston,  S.  C,  in  1811,  was  educated  at  Bal- 
timore, began  to  study  law  at  seventeen,  practiced  for  a  time,  then  removed  to  Cincin- 
nati and  assisted  his  father  in  the  editorial  management  of  the  Commercial  Adi'ertisei', 


AMEEICAN    POETRY.  283 

Thomas,  (F.  W.) —  Coniimted. 

and  was  a  frequent  contributor  to  the  local  periodicals.  Subsequently  he  was  journalist, 
lecturer,  author,  for  a  short  time  a  minister  in  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  Professor 
of  Rhetoric,  etc.,  in  the  Alabama  University,  and  again  a  practicing  lawyer  and  editor. 
He  died  September  30,  ISOfl. 

—  The  Beeehen  Tree.     12°,  pp.  95.     New  York,  1844. 

—  The  Emigrant.     8°,  pp.  vi,  48.     Cincinnati,  1833. 
-^  Same.     With  a  Memoir.     Cincinnati,  1872. 

Thomas,  (G.  B.)     A  Sketch.     8°,  pp.  4.     No  place,  no  date.. 

Thomas,    (J.)      Origin   and  Course  of  Intemperance.      18°,  pp.  vii,  59. 
New  York,  1832. 

—  The  Pilgrim's  Hymn  Book.     24°,  pp.  206.     Winchester,  Va.,  1816. 

—  The  Pilgrim's   Muse.       Sm.   24°,  pp.   vii,   219.       Winchester,  Va., 

1816. 

Thomas,  (L.  B.)     Verses.     8°,  pp.  35.     Baltimore,  1877. 

Twenty  copies  printed. 

Thomas,   (L.   F.)      Cortez,   the    Conqueror.     8°,  pp.  73.     Washington, 
1857. 

See  "  Southern  Quarterly  Review,"  iii,  p.  27~. 

Thomas,  (L.  G.)     Poems.     16°,  pp.  viii,  139.     New  York,  1871. 

Thomas,  (W.  G.)       The    Minor   Poetry  of  Goethe,  etc,      8°,  pp.  xxxiv, 
335.     Philadelphia,  1859. 

Thompson,  (A.  C,  D.  D.) 

Augustus  C.  Thompson  was  born  at  Goshen,  Litchtield  county.  Conn.,  in  1812,  edu- 
cated, in  part,  at  Yale  College,  which  conferred  on  him  in  1841  A.  M.,  studied  theology  at 
East  Windsor,  Conn.,  and  at  Berlin,  Germany,  and  was  installed  pastor  of  the  Eliot 
Church,  Roxbury,  now  Boaton,  in  1842.    He  is  the  author  of  several  devotional  books. 

—  Lyra  Coelestis.     Hymns   on   Heaven.      12°,  pp.  xxii,  382.     Boston, 

1863. 
Thompson,  (George.) 

The  author,  who  was  confined  four  years  and  eleven  months  in  a  Missouri  prison  for 
attempting  to  aid  some  slaves  to  liberty,  says  :  "  These  poems  were  composed  at  various 
times  during  a  space  of  nearly  live  years,  while  pursuing  my  daily  duties  within  the  con- 
fines of  a  slaveholders'  prison." 

—  The  Prison  Bard.      12°,  pp.  215.     Hartford,  1848. 

Thompson,  (Mrs.  A.)      The   Lyre  of  Troja.      18°,  pp.  180.     Geneva, 
N.  Y.,  1829. 
39 


284  HAKRIS    COLLECTION. 

TnoMrsoN,  (J.  R.) 

John  R.  Thompson  was  born  at  Riclimond,  Va.,  October  23,  1823,  pursued  liis  aca- 
liemic  studies  at  East  Haven,  Conn.,  was  educated  at  the  University  of  Virginia,  and 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  1S45.  lie  became  the  editor  of  the  "  Soutliern  Literary  Messenger  " 
in  1847,  and  made  it  a  periodical  of  liigli  cliaracter,  taking  rank  with  the  best  magazines 
of  the  country.  "  lie  is,"  says  Griswold,  "  one  of  the  most  accomplished  and  most  useful 
writers  of  the  Southern  States."  One  of  his  works,  "  Across  tlie  Atlantic;  or,  European 
Episodes,"  which  was  announced  for  publication  in  1856,  unfortunately  was  burnt.  A  dis- 
tinguished literary  gentleman  who  had  read  it,  before  it  was  destroyed  by  the  flame*,  pro- 
nounced it  "afresh,  graceful  and  brilliant  book."  One  or  two  other  important  literary 
works  were  prepared  by  Mr.  Thompson,  but  failed  for  some  reason  of  publication.  Duy- 
ekinck  speaks  of  his  poetical  writings  as  having  been  "  flnished  with  care,  and  displaying  a 
delicate  sentiment." 

—  Poem.     University  of  Virginia,  July  1,  18G9.     8°,  pp.  12. 

—  Poesy.     An  Essay  in  Rhyme.     8°,  pp.  16.     Washington,  1859. 
Thompson,  (M.) 

Maurice  Thompson  was  born  at  Fairfield,  Ind.,  September  9,  1844.  He  was  educated 
on  his  father's  estates  in  Georgia,  and  subsequently  returned  to  his  native  State  and  took 
up  his  residence  in  Crawfordsville.  He  was  the  author  of  several  works.  Those  best 
known  are  "  Hoosier  Mosaics  "  (1875),  "  The  Witchery  of  Archery"  (1878),  "  A  Tallahassee 
Girl"  (1882),  and  "His  Second  Campaign"  (a  novel,  1883). 

—  Songs  of  Fair  Weather.      12°,  pp.  iv,  99.     Boston,  1883. 

A  beautiful  edition,  printed  by  J.  R.  Osgood  &  Co. 

Thompson,  (M.  M.)      (Q.  K.  Philander  Doesticks,  pseud.) 

Mortimer  M.  Tliompson  was  born  at  Riga.N.  Y.,in  1831,  was  educated  in  part  at  the 
Michigan  University,  was  connected  for  a  time  with  a  theatrical  company,  moved  to  New 
York  in  1852,  and  gained  much  reputation  as  a  writer  of  humorous  poetry.  He  died  in 
New  York,  June  2(5,  1865. 

—  Nothing  to  Say.      16°,  pp.  xi,  60.     New  York,  1857. 

—  Plu-ri-bus-tah.     12°,  pp.  261.     New  York,  1861. 

Thompson,  (P.)     Quoit  Club  Carols;  or,  Noctes  Gymnasii.     8°,  pp.  39. 

Washington,  1839. 
Thompson,  (W.  T.) 

William  Theodore  Thompson,  a  humorous  writer  and  journalist  at  Baltimore,  Augusta 
and  Savannah,  Ga. 

—  Major    Jones' Courtship  ;  or.  Adventures  of  a   Christmas  Eve.     A 

Domestic  Comedy.     By  Major  Joseph  Jones,  {&  pseud.)      12°,  pp. 
61.     Savannah,  1850. 
Thomson,  (C.  W.) 

Charles  West  Thomson  was  born  at  Philadelphia  in  1798,  and  became  a  clergyman  in 
the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church.  He  contributed  to  several  annuals,  to  "  Graham's 
Magazine,"  and  to  religious  periodicals  of  the  day. 

—  Elliner,  etc.      12°,  pp.  98.     Philadelphia,  1826. 


AMERICAX    POETRY.  285 

Thomson,  (C.  W.)  —  Continued. 

—  The  Love  of  Home,  etc.      12°,  pp.  x,  120.     Philadelphia,  1845. 

—  The  Sylph,  etc.     18°,  pp.  110.     Philadelphia,  1828. 

—  The  Uncertainty  of  Literary  Fame.     8°,  pp.  (Avith  Brooks'  Address, 

Pennsylvania   College,  Gettysburg,  Pa.,  February  14,  1840,)  47. 
Baltimore. 

Thomson,  (S.) 

Samuel  Thomson  was  born  in  1769,  and  was  the  founder  of  the  "  Thonisonian  System  " 
of  medicine.  He  says  "  the  poem  was  written  by  me  while  in  Newburyport  jail,  in  1809, 
on  a  charge  for  murder,  for  which  I  was  honorably  acquitted  by  a  special  session  of  the 
Supreme  Court,  without  having  an  opportunity  to  make  any  defense.  It  was  printed  and 
circulated  in  a  hand-bill,  as  a  looking  glass  in  which  the  doctors  might  see  their  own  con- 
duct and  the  effects  of  their  medicine  on  patients  in  cases  of  pleurisy  and  levers  when 
treated  according  to  art."    He  died  at  Boston  in  1873. 

—  Learned  Quackery  Exposed.     12°,  pp.  24.     Boston,  1824. 

—  Same.     12°,  pp.  43.     Boston,  1836. 

Thorn  Cottage  ;  or,  The  Poet's  Home,  A  Memorial  of  Frederic 
Knight,  Esq.,  of  Rowley,  Mass.  (Anon.)  18°,  pp.  108.  Bos- 
ton, 1855. 

Thurber,  (C.) 

Charles  Thurber,  son  of  Kev.  Laban  Thurber,  was  born  at  Brookflekl,  Mass.,  January 
2,  1803,  graduated  at  Brown  University  in  1827,  Principal  of  Milford,  Mass.,  Academy, 
four  years,  a.^d  of  Latin  School,  Worcester,  eight  years,  was  engaged  in  secular  busi- 
iness  eighteen  years,  and,  for  a  number  of  years,  travelled  with  his  family  and  devoted 
himself  to  literary  pursuits.  Mr.  Thurber  has  delivered  many  poems  on  commencement 
and  other  occasions,  which  have  been  well  received.  His  present  (1886)  residence  is 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

—  A  Poem   at  Commencement  Dinner,  Brown  University,   September 

5,  1855.     8°,  pp.  8. 

Thurid,  ETC,  (G.  E,  O,  Anon,)  12°,  pp,  123,  Boston  and  New- 
York,  1874, 

Thurston,  (Elizabeth  A,)  Mosaics  of  Life,  8°,  pp,  305.  Philadel- 
phia, 1881. 

a  book  of  poetical  extracts. 

Tilton,  (T.) 

Tlieodore  Tilton  was  born  in  the  city  of  New  York,  October  2,  1835,  was  educated  at 
the  New  York  Free  Academy,  and  as  a  journalist  was  connected  with  the  Independent  and 
other  papers.  He  acquired  notoriety  on  account  of  his  lawsuit  against  Henry  Ward 
Beecher,  in  which  the  jury  stood  nine  for  the  defendant  and  three  for  the  plaintiff.  He 
has  been  a  popular  lecturer. 


286  IIARKIS    COLLECTION. 

TiLTON,  (T.)  —Continued. 

—  The  Fly.     Sq.  10°,  not  paged.     New  York,  no  date. 

—  The  Hungry  Kittens.     8°,  pp.  4.     N^ew  York,  18G6. 

—  The  True  Church  !     llhistrated  by  Granville   Perkins.     Lg.  8°,  not 

paged.      Philadelphia,  18G7. 

—  The  King's  Ring,      Illustrated.      Lg.  8°,  pp.  7.     New  York,  1847. 

—  The  Sexton's  Tale.      16°,  pp.  173.     New  York,  1867. 

Times,  The.      A   Satire.      (Peter  Pickle,  pseud.)     12°,  pp.  85.     New 
York,  1853. 

Times,  The,  and  the  Men.     A  Satire.      (Anon.)      12°,  pp.  49.     Phil- 
adelphia, 1871. 

TiPPERARY  Warbler.     (Anon.)     A  Play  in  Three  Acts.     12°,  pp.  51. 
Rochester,  N.  Y.,  1865. 

Tobacco.     A  Satire  by  a  non-Sucker.     2d  Edition.     8°,  pp.    42.     No 
place,  1859. 

Todd,  (Mrs.  S.  H.)     Occasional  Poems.     16°,   pp.   vi,   215.      Boston, 
1851. 

Token,  A,  of  Esteem.     (Anon.)     8°,  pp.  53.     "West  Chester,  Pa.,  1853. 

TOPLIFF,   (N.) 

The  writer,  Nathaniel  Topliff,  who  calls  himself  "A  Farmer  of  Dorchester,"  says  :  "As 
the  following  Poems  originated  in  sincere  and  ardent  love  of  my  country,  and  a  desire  to 
aid  the  cause  of  truth,  morality  and  religion,  so  I  hope  they  will  be  read  with  candour 
even  by  numbers  of  good  men  whose  religious  tenets  and  political  sentiments  areditferent 
from  my  own.  If  found  to  aid  the  cause  of  virtue  or  of  our  country's  highest  prosperity,  my 
highest  ambition  will  be  gratitied." 

—  Poems.      12°,  pp.  169.     Boston,  1809. 

Touch,  A,  at  the  Times.      (Anon.)      18°,  pp.  45.     Portland,  Me.,  1840. 

Touchstone,  (Geoffrey.)      (A  pseud.)     He  wou'd  be  a  Poet.     8°,  pp. 
38.     Philadelphia,  1776. 

—  A  House  of  Wisdom  in  a  Bustle.     A  Poem  descriptive  of  the  noted 

Battle  lately  fought  in  C-n-g-ss.     8°,  pp.  28.     Philadelphia,  1798. 

TowNSEND,  (Eliza.) 

She  was  born  at  Boston  in  June,  1~89,  and  died  January  12,  1854.  See  an  obituary 
notice  by  Rev.  C.  Francis  in  Boston  Advertiser  published  soon  after  her  death. 

—  Poems  and  Miscellanies.     8°,  pp.  355.     Boston,  1856. 


AMERICAX    POETRY.  287 

TOWNSEND,   (E.  W.) 

Elizabeth  AV.  Haydock  was  born  at  Philadelphia. 

—  The  White  Dove,  etc.      16°,  pp.  128.     Phihxdelphia,  1858. 

ToWNSEND,    (G.  A.) 

George  Alfred  Townsend  was  born  at  Georgetown,  Del.,  in  1841,  educated  in  the  Phila- 
delphia High  school.  As  a  journalist  he  was  connected  with  the  Philadelphia  Inquirer 
and  witli  The  Press.  In  1862  he  was  the  war  correspondent  of  the  New  York  Herald,  and 
correspondent  of  several  journals  in  England  and  France,  and  of  the  New  York  World. 
While  in  Europe,  186(i-67,  he  wrote  for  American  papers,  and  for  several  years  he  was  on 
the  editorial  staff  of  the  Chicaga  Tribune. 

—  Poems.     12°,  pp.  160.     Washington,  1870. 

—  The  Bohemians  ;  or.  Life  in  a  Newspaper.      12°,  pp.  52.     Philadel- 

phia,  1861. 

Townsend,  (Mary  A.)     Down  the  Bayou,  etc.     12°,  pp.  230.     Boston, 
1882. 

—  The  Captain's  Story.      16°,  pp.  41.     Pliikdelphia,  1874. 

Townsend,  (R.  H.)      Rhymes.      18°,  pp.  160.     Baltimore,  1836. 

Townsend,  (W.)     Fourth  of  July  Ode,  1803.     8°,  pp.  3.     No  place,  no 
date. 

Tracy,  (C.  M.)     Poem.     Dedication  City  Hall,   Lynn,    Mass.     8°,   pp. 
36.     November  30,  1867. 

Tragedy,  The  Gospel.      (Anon.)     id^,   pp.    119.     Worcester,   Mass., 
1795. 

Treasures  of  Darkness.     (By  E.  L.,  Authoress  of"  Night  Watches.") 
12°,  pp.  248.     Philadelphia,  1854. 

Tributes,  Poetical,  to  the  Memory'  of  Abraham  Lincoln.     8°,  pp. 
xii,  306.     Philadelphia,   1865. 

Trinity,  The  Orthodox.      (Anon.)      24°,  pp.  16.     No  place,  no  date. 

Triumph  of  Peace.      (Anon.)      12°,  pp.  96.     New  York,  1840. 

Triumvirate,  The  State.     (Brevet  Major  Pindar  Puff,  pseud.)     12°, 
pp.  212.      New  York,  1819. 

Trojan  Sketch  Book.      (Alba  A.   Goddard.)      12°,    pp.    180.     Several 
poems  in  the  volume.     Troy,  1846. 


288  IIAKllIiS    COLLECTION. 

TKOLi.orE,  (N.)  Scribes  of  Gotham.  12°,  ])p.  viii,  36.  New  York, 
18o;5. 

Trowbkipge,  (J.  T.) 

Jolin  Townsond  Trowbridge  was  born  at  Ogdcn,  Munroe  county,  N.  Y.,  in  1827,  and  is 
well-known  as  an  author  and  contributor  to  several  magazines. 

—  A  Home  Idyl,  etc.      16°,  pp.  165.     Boston,  1881. 

—  Neighbor  Jackwood.     A  Domestic  Drama.      12°,  pp.  72.     Boston, 

1857. 

—  The  Vagabonds.     Darley's  Ilhistrations.     8°,  pp.  iv,  15.     New  York, 

1864. 

—  The  Story  of  Cohimbus.     4°.     Boston,  1870. 

True  akd  Infernal  Friendship  ;  or.  The  Wisdom  of  Eve,  and  the 
Character  of  the  Serpent,  with  the  Situation,  Joys,  and 
Loss  of  Paradise.     (Anon.)      12°,  pp.  176.     Providence,  1813. 

Truesdell,  (Mrs.  H.) 

In  1853-54  she  was  a  regular  contributor  to  the  "  Parlor  Magazine."  She  wrote  also 
for  the  "  Ladies'  Repository."  For  a  time  she  resided  at  Newport,  Ky.  (See  Coggeshall 
Poets  and  Poetry  of  tlie  AVest,  p.  544.) 

—  Poems.      11th  Edition.     8°,  pp.  212.     Cincinnati,  Ohio,  1859. 
Trumbull,  (J.) 

John  Trumbull  was  born  at  Waterbury,  Conn.,  April  24,  1750,  graduated  at  Yale,  17C7, 
and  was  Tutor  in  that  college,  1771-7*  He  studied  law  under  John  Adams,  practiced  in 
New  Haven,  and  in  1781  moved  to  Hartford.  McFingal,  his  most  popular  poem,  passed 
through  thirty  editions.    He  died  at  Detroit  in  May,  1831. 

—  Elegy  on  the  Times.      12°,  pp.  15.     New  Haven,  1775. 

—  McFingal.      12°,  pp.  44.     Philadelphia,  1776. 

—  Same.     London,  1776. 

—  Same.      16°,  pp.  lUO.     Hartford,  1782. 

In  its  costly  binding,  one  of  the  gems  of  the  collection.  On  a  fly  leaf  is  written  in  pen- 
cil 112..50.    Do  these  figures  designate  the  sum  paid  for  the  volume? 

—  Same.     18°,  pp.  110.     Boston,  1785. 

—  Same.      12°,  pp.  95.     Philadelphia,  1791. 

—  Same.  12°,  pp.  142.     London,  1791. 

—  Same.  12°,  pp.  136.     New  York,  1795. 

—  Same.  24°,  pp.  112.     Albany,  1813. 

—  Same.  12°,  pp.  120.     Philadelphia,  1839. 

—  Same.  8°.     Hartford,  1856. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  289 

Trumbull,  (J.)  —  Continued. 

—  Same.     With  B.   J.    Lossing's  Notes.     12°,   pp.   322.     New  York, 

1864. 

—  Same.     8°,  and  pp.  353-382  of  some  book   or  periodical,  the  poem 

being  bound  by  itself. 

—  Poetical  Works  in  2  vols.     8°,  pp.  176,  233.     Hartford,  1820. 

—  Progress  of  Dulness.     24°,  pp.  72.     AVrentham,  Mass.,  1801. 

Tucker,  (M.  E.[?])      Loew's  Bridge.     A  Broadway  Idyl.     Sq.  16°,  pp. 
78.     New  York,  1867. 

Tucker,  (Mary  E.)     Poems.     12°,  pp.  237.     New  York,  1867. 

Tucker,  (St.  G.) 

St.  George  Tucker  was  born  in  Bermuda,  June  29,  1752.  When  his  father  was  a  young 
man  lie  removed  to  Virginia,  but  much  of  his  time  was  spent  in  Enghmd  in  the  discharge 
of  his  duties  as  agent  of  the  colony.  Of  his  four  sons,  two  sided  with  tlie  Loyalist  and  two 
with  the  American  party  in  the  war  of  the  Revolution.  St.  George  graduated  from  Wil- 
liam and  Mary  College  in  1772,  and  studied  law  but  did  not  practice,  the  war  absorbing 
bis  time  and  interest.  A  successful  expedition  to  Bermuda  is  said  to  have  been  planned 
by  him.  He  was  present  at  the  battle  of  Yorktown  where  he  held  the  rank  of  Lieutenant- 
Colonel,  and  where  he  was  wounded  from  the  explosion  of  a  bomb.  He  was  appointed  as 
Judge  in  the  Virginia  General  Court,  held  also  the  position  of  Law  Professor  at  AVilliam 
and  Mary  College,  subsequently  was  advanced  to  the  Court  of  Appeals,  and  afterwards  to 
the  District  Court  of  the  United  States .  By  his  tirst  wife,  the  widow  of  John  Randolph,  he 
had  several  children.    He  died  at  Edgewood,  Nelson  county,  Va.,  in  November,  1827. 

The  following  poem  of  Judge  Tucker  entitled,  "  Days  of  my  Y'outh,"  has  been  much 
admired  : 

Days  of  my  youth,  ye  have  glided  away  : 

Hairs  of  my  youth,  ye  are  frosted  and  gray  : 

Eyes  of  my  youth,  your  keen  sight  is  no  more  : 

Cheeks  of  my  j'outh,  ye  are  furrowed  all  o'er  : 

Strength  of  my  youth,  all  your  vigor  is  gone  : 

Thoughts  of  my  youth,  your  gay  visions  are  flown  : 

Daj's  of  my  youth,  I  wisli  not  your  recall  : 
Hairs  of  my  youth,  I'm  content  ye  should  fall : 
ilyes  of  my  youth,  you  much  evil  have  seen  : 
Cheeks  of  my  youth,  bathed  in  tears  you  have  been  : 
Thoughts  of  my  youth,  you  have  led  me  astray  : 
Strength  ot  my  youth,  why  lament  your  decay  : 

Days  of  my  age,  ye  will  shortly  be  past ; 
Pains  of  my  age,  yet  awhile  you  can  last : 
Joys  of  my  age,  iu  true  wisdom  delight  : 
Eyes  of  my  age,  be  religion  your  light : 
Thoughts  of  my  age,  dread  ye  not  the  cold  sod  : 
Hopes  of  my  age,  be  ye  fixed  on  your  God. 

—  The  Probationary  Odes  of  Jonathan  Pindar,  Esq.      12°,  pp.  viii,  103. 

Philadelphia,  1796. 


290  IIAKRIS    COLLECTION. 

Tucker,  (St.  G.) — Continued. 

Dr.  Griswold  says :  "  VVIien  Dr.  Wolcott's  satires  on  George  the  TliinJ,  written  under 
the  mime  of  "  Peter  I'indar,"  obtained,  both  in  this  country  and  in  Enghmd,  a  popuhirity 
far  beyond  their  merits,  Judge  Tucker,  who  admired  them,  was  induced  to  publish  in 
¥ve\\e:\\\'s,  National  Gazette,  a  series  of  siniihir  odes  under  tlie  signature  of  "  Jonathan 
I'indar,"  by  wliich  he  at  once  gratified  his  political  zeal  and  his  political  propensity.  His 
object  was  to  assail  John  Adam?  and  other  leading  federalists  for  their  supposed  mon- 
archical predilections.  His  pieces  might  well  be  compared  with  Wolcott's  for  poetical 
qualities,  but  were  less  playful  and  had  far  more  acerbity." 

"The  Probationary  Odes"  are  in  two  parts;  part  i,  pp.  9-46;  part  ii.  pp.  53-103. 
Pages  51-52  contains  an  amusing  letter  from  a  landlord  signed  "  Timothy  Touclipenny," 
in  which  he  relates  the  circumstances  und«r  which  part  ii  came  into  his  possession. 

TUCKERMAN,    (F.  G.) 

Frederick  G.  Tuckerman  was  born  at  Boston  in  1821,  went  through  a  part  of  the  Har- 
vard course,  graduated  at  the  Dane  Law  School  in  1842,  and  was  admitted  to  the  Suffolk 
bar  in  1845. 

—  Poems.      12°,  pp.  235.     Boston,  18G4. 
Tuckerman,  (H.  T.) 

Henry  Theodore  Tuckerman  was  born  at  Boston,  April  20,  1813,  and  was  educated  in 
the  public  schools  of  his  native  city,  spent  several  years,  at  different  times,  in  Europe, 
devoted  himself  to  literary  pursuits,  and  was  a  frequent  contributor  to  the  periodicals  of 
the  day.    As  an  art  critic  he  took  high  rank.    He  died  in  1871. 

—  A  Sheaf  of  Vei'se  Bound  for  the  Fair,   {i.  e.  the  N.  Y.  San.  Com. 

Fair.)      12°,  pp.  48.     New  York,  1864. 

—  Poems.     12°,  pp.  vii,  175.     Boston,  1851. 

TuEL,  (J.  E.)  Putnam  Portraits,  Done  in  Ink.  (By  Jet,  pse?ic?.)  12°, 
pp.  30.     New  York,  1855. 

TuRNBULL,  (J.  D.)     Rudolph.     18°,  pp.  141.     Boston,  1799. 

—  Same.     1807. 

—  Same.      1813. 

—  Same.     Hallowell,  1813. 

—  Same.     Boston,  1826. 

—  Wood  Da-mon  ;  or,  The  Clock  has  Struck.     A  Drama.     24°,  pp.  34. 

Boston,  1808. 

Turner,  (E.  S.)     Out-of-Door  Rhymes.      16°,  pp.  187.     Boston,  1872. 

Turner,  (Juliana  F.)  The  Harp  of  the  Beech  Woods.  Original  Poems. 
12°,  pp.  156.     Montrose,  Penn.,  1822. 

Turner,  (J.  W.)     The  Minstrel's  Gift.     12°,  pp.  120.     Boston,  1852. 

TuRRELL,  (Mrs.  Jones.)  Some  of  her  poems  in  memoirs  by  her  hus- 
band.     12°.     London,  1741. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  291 

TwEEDLE  Hall  ;  or,  New  York  City  Politics  in  1870.     (Anon.)    12°, 
pp.  11.     No  place,  no  date. 

Tyler,  (R.) 

Robert  Tyler  was  a  son  of  President  John  Tyler. 

—  Ahasuerus.      12°,  pp.  46.     New  York,   1842. 

—  Death;  or,  Medorus's  Dream.      12°,  pp.  66.     New  York,  1843. 

—  Poems.     12°,  pp.  101.     Philadelphia,   1839. 

Tyler,  (T.  P.)     The    Unseen    Witnesses.     Trinity    College,    Hartford, 
August  5,  1846.     8°,  pp.  11.     Hartford,  1846. 

Ttng,  (D.  a.) 

Dudley  Atkins  Tyng  was  born  in  Prince  George's  county,  Md.,  1823,  graduated  at  the 
University  of  Pennsylvania,  1842,  and  was  ordained  1846.  He  was  his  father's  assistant  at 
St.  George's  Church,  New  York,  and  afterwards  was  Rector  of  several  Episcopal  churches, 
and  died  near  Philadelpliia,  April  1!),  185S. 

—  Stand  up  for  Jesus,  etc.      12°,  pp.  47.     Philadelphia,  1858. 

Umphatille,  (A.)     The  Siege  of  Baltimore,  etc.      12°,  pp.  144.     Balti- 
more, 1817. 

Underwood,  (T.  H.)     Our  Flag.     A  Poem  in  Four  Cantos.     12°,  pp. 
41.     New  York,   1862. 

Union,  The.     (Anon.)     12°,  pp.  48.     Boston,  1860. 

Untaught  Bard,  The.     (Anon.)     12°,  pp.  260.     New  York,  1804. 

Upham,  (T.  C.) 

Thomas  Cogswell  Upham  was  born  at  Deerfield,  N.  H.,  January  30,  1799.  The  j'ear 
following  his  birth  his  father  removed  to  Rochester,  N.  H.,  vehere  for  some  years  he  occu- 
pied a  conspicuous  position  in  the  community.  The  subject  of  this  sketch  graduated  at 
Dartmouth  College  in  1818,  and  at  the  Andover  Theological  Seminary  in  1821.  Among 
his  seminary  classmates  were  Rev.  Drs.  Baxter  Dickinson,  George  E.  Pierce,  and  Alva 
Woods.  After  graduation  he  became  the  assistant  of  Professor  Moses  Stuart  in  the 
department  of  Hebrew.  In  182.3  he  was  ordained  as  a  Congregational  minister,  and  was, 
for  a  little  more  than  a  year,  colleague  with  Rev.  Joseph  Haven,  in  Rochester,  N.  H.  In 
the  spring  of  1825,  he  entered  ui)on  his  duties  as  Professor  of  Mental  and  Moral  Philosophy 
in  Bowdoin  College,  where  he  distinguished  himself  as  an  able  instructor  and  tlie  accom- 
plished author  of  many  valuable  works  in  his  special  department,  and  several  of  a  highly 
devotional  character.  Of  one  of  the  productions  of  his  pen,  "Letters:  ^Esthetic,  Social 
and  Moral,  written  from  Europe,  Egypt,  and  Palestine,"  a  writer  in  the  "North  American 
Review,"  No.  Ixxxi,  speaks  in  commendation.  "  While  as  a  book  of  travels,  it  is  meagre 
in  its  details  in  England,  France,  and  Rome,  it  is  profoundly  interesting  among  the  Wal- 
denses,  eminently  suggestive  and  impressive  in  Egypt  and  in  the  desert  of  Sinai,  rich 

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292  HAEKIS    COLLECTION. 

Upham,  (T.  C.)—  Continued. 

almost  beyond  comparison  among  the  scenes  hallowed  by  the  presence  ol'  our  Saviour. 
But  it  is  inestimably  precious  as  a  record  of  the  author's  inward  life  and  spiritual  expe- 
rience in  communion  with  Nature  in  her  solitudes,  her  grandeur  and  her  beauty,  with 
iiumanity  under  various  phases  of  civilization  and  religion,  and  with  the  memorials  of 
supernatural  events,  sacred  history,  religious  heroism,  and  Christian  martyrdom." 

I'rofessor  Upham  resigned  his  professorship  in  1867,  and  took  up  his  residence  in 
Kennebunk,  Me.    His  death  took  place  in  the  city  of  Xew  York  in  April,  1872. 

—  American  Cottage  Life.     2d   Edition.      12°,    pp.    212.     Brunswick, 

Me.,  1850. 

—  Same.     3d  Edition.      12°,  pp.  x,  251.     Portland,  1852. 

—  Same.      Ttli  Edition.      12°,  pp.  251.     Boston,  no  date. 

—  Odes  for  Centennial  Celebration,  1823.     8°,  pp.  8. 

—  The  Home  in  the  West.     24°,  pp.  19.     Hanover;  N.  H.,  1817. 

—  The  Religioiis  OflTering.      12°,  pp.  176.      New  York,    1835. 

Vagaries,  The  Poetical,  of  a  Knight  of  the  Folding-Stick  ;  or, 
Paste-Castle.  To  which  is  annexed  the  History  of  the  Garret, 
etc.,  etc.  Translated  from  the  Hieroglyphics  of  the  Society.  (By 
a  Member  of  the  Order  of  Blue-String.)  18°,  pp.  143.  Gotham, 
1815. 

Vail,  (J.  C.) 

The  nom  de  j)lume  of  John  Cooper  Vail,  a  humorous  writer  of  the  day,  was  Zekel  All- 
spice. Some  of  the  poems  in  this  volume  appeared  originally  in  tlie  Saturday  Emjjorimn, 
the  jVew  York  Literary  American  and  the  Boston  Museum. 

—  Poems.     8°,  pp.  viii,  156.     New  York,  1851. 
Vail,  (J.) 

Rev.  Joseph  Vail  was  pastor  of  the  Thirn  church  in  East  Haddam,  Conn. 

—  Noah's  Flood,  etc.     8°,  pp.  28.     New  London,  1796. 

Valedictory  Poem  before  Class  of  1830,  Harvard.  (Anon.)  8°, 
pp.  16.     Cambridge,  1830. 

Valentine  Writer.      (Anon.)      18°,  pp.  32,     New  York,  1848. 

Valmore,  (Madame  Desbordes.)  Poems  translated  by  Harriet  W. 
Preston.      12°,  pp.  227.     Boston,  1873. 

Vandenhoff,  (G.) 

A  celebrated  elocutionist  of  the  day.  He  was  born  in  England  about  1820,  came  to 
New  York  in  1847,  and  was  an  actor  until  1856.  He  studied  law  and  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  in  1858. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  293 

Vandenhoff,  (G.)  —  Gontinucd. 

—  Common  Sense,  etc.      12°,  pp.  48.     Boston,  1858. 

—  Life;  or.  Men,  Manners,  Modes  and  Measures.     A  Poem  for  Union. 

12°,  pp.  41.     New  York,  1861. 

Van  Wart,  (Irving. )     The  Golden  Cross,  etc.    Sm.  4°,  pp.  180.    New 
York,  1870. 

Vaso  Waters,  (G.)     Political  Geogra])hy.     8°,  pp.  80.     Cincinnati,  no 
date. 

Vaux,  (R.)     The  Habeas  Corpus.     4°,  pp.  8.     Philadelphia,  18G2. 

Verdi,  (J.) 

Guisepe  Terdi  was  born  near  Parma,  Italy,  October  9,  1814.  He  was  chosen  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Senate  in  1874,  and  Commander  of  the  Legion  of  Honor  in  18~5. 

—  The  Tavo  Foscari.    A  Tragedy.     Translations  from  the  Italian.     12°, 

pp.. 28.     Boston,  1847. 

Verity,  J.  (jJsei(fZ[.?])     The  Twins.     8°,  pp.  56.     No  place,  1856. 

Vermont,  Poets  and  Poetry  of.     Edited  by  Abby  Maria  Hemmenway. 
12°,  pp.  400.     Rutland,  Vt.,  1858. 

Vermont  Wool-Dealer.      A   Farce.      (Anon.)     12°,    pp.    18.      New 
York,  no  date. 

Very,  (J.) 

Jones  Very  was  born  at  Salem,  Mass.,  August  28,  1813,  graduated  at  Harvard  1836, 
and  for  a  time  was  Greek  Tutor  in  the  University,  studied  tlieology  and  was  licensed,  but 
never  took  charge  of  a  church.    He  died  May  8,  1880. 

—  Poems.     Introductory  Memoir  by  W.  P.  Andrews.      12°,  pp.   160. 

Boston,  1883. 

ViCKSBURGH,  A  Walk  About,  etc.     (Anon.)      12°,  pp.   204.     Boston, 
1844. 

Vinton,  (J.  D.,  M.  D.) 

Jonathan  Dwight  A'inton  was  born  at  Chesterfield,  Mass.,  August  21,  1831,  spent  his 
early  life  on  a  farm,  teaching  in  the  winter.  He  received  the  degree  of  M.  D.  from  the 
Philadelphia  University  of  Medicine  and  Surgery  in  18(54,  practiced  his  profession  in  Plioe- 
nixville.  Pa.,  until  1869,  when  he  removed  to  Philadelphia,  were  he  now  (1886)  resides. 

—  Poems.      18°,  pp.  56.     Philadelphia,  1884. 

—  Same.       Translations.       Miscellaneous,     Sacred,     and     Humorous. 

Illustrated.      12°,  pp.  240.     Philadelphia,  1886. 


294  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

YiRGixiA  ;  OK,  The  Fatal  Patent.     (Atioii.)      12°,   pp.  63.     AVashing- 
ton,  1825. 

Vision  of  Don  Crocker.      (Supposed  to  have  been  written  by  Chancellor 
KiUy,  of  Maryhind.)      12°,  pp.  vii,  71.     Bahimore,  1814. 

Vision,  A,  of  Faith.     12°,  pp.  24.     New  York,  privately  printed,  1817. 

Vocalists,  Pennsylvania.     Book  of  Words.      18°,   pp.   12.     Bradford, 
no  date. 

Wa-Wa- Wanda.     A   Legend  of  Ohl  Orange.      (Anon.)      12°,  pp.  viii, 

180.     New  York,  1800. 

Waddell,    (F.   L.)      An  Autumn  Dream.       12°,  pp.31.      New  York, 
1857. 

—  The  Drift  Wood  Spar.     12°,  pp.  12.     No  phice,  1853. 

Waddell,  (J.  H.)      Facts  and  Fancy.      12°,  pp.  8.     New  York,  1819. 

Wade,  (R.  A.)     Poem  on  Niagara  Falls.      12°,  pp.23.     Louisville,  Ky., 
1874. 

Wainwrioht,  (D.  W.,  M.D.)     Wheat  and   ChaiF.     A  Comedy.      12°, 
pp.  84.     New  York,  1858. 

Wainwrioht,  (H.)     Rhymings.     12°,  pp.  90.     New  York,  1860. 

Walcot,  (C.  M.)      "A  Good  Fellow."     A  Comedy.     12°,  pp.  14.     New 
York,  1856. 

Walden,  (I.)     Miscellaneous  Poems.      18°,  pp.  50.     Washington,  1872. 

—  Same.     2d  Edition.      18°,  pp.  96.     Washington,  1873. 

Waldren,  (W.  W.)      Last  Lays  of  My  Harp.      Sm.  4°.     A  MS.  vol- 
ume of  111  pages. 

—  Pocahontas.     12°,  pp.  108.     New  York,  1841. 

Walker,  (J.) 

Jesse  Walker  was  born  at  Whiting,  Addison  county,  Vt.,  and  graduated  at  Middle- 
bury  College,  1833.  He  commenced  the  practice  of  law  in  Buffalo  in  1836,  and  was  Judge 
of  Erie  county.    He  died  in  1854[?] 

—  Poems.      12°,  pp.  vii,  196.     Buffalo,  1854. 

Wallace,  (Mrs.  E.  D.)      England's  Last  Queen.     16°,  pp.  11.     New 
York,  1871. 


AMEEICAN    POETRY.  295 

Wallace,  (W.  R.) 

William  Ross  Wallace  was  born  at  Lexington,  Ky.,  in  1S19,  was  educated  at  the 
Bloomington  and  South  Hanover  Colleges,  Indiana,  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  and  began 
practice,  but  soon  relinquished  it  to  devote  himself  to  literary  pursuits.  He  removed  to 
Xew  York  and  became  a  contributor  to  "  Harper's  Magazine,"  the  "  Knickerbocker,"  etc. 
He  died  in  1881. 

—  Alban,  the  Pirate.      12°,  pp.  65.     New  York,  1848. 

—  Meditations  in  America.      12°,  pp.  143.     New  York,  1851, 

—  The  Battle  of  Tippecanoe,  etc.      12°,  pp.  105.     Cincinnati,  1837. 

—  The   Liberty   Bell.       How's    Illustrations.      4°,  pp.  4.      New  York, 

1862. 

—  Wordsworth.      12°,  pp.  8.     New  York,  1846. 

Wallack,  (.J.    L.)     Veteran,  The;  or,  France   and   Algeria.     12°,  pp. 

63.     New  York,  no  date. 
Waln,  (R.,  Jk.) 

Robert,  son  of  Robert  Wain,  a  distinguished  citizen  of  Philadelphia,  was  born  in  1797, 
and  died  in  1824.  Among  his  works  were  a  History  of  China  in  4°  numbers.  (See  Ket- 
tell's  Specimens,"  etc.,  vol.  iii,  p.  213.) 

—  American  Bards.     A  Satire.     8°,  pp.  80.     Philadelphia,  1820. 

In  "  American  Bards,"  a  poem  of  more  than  nine  hundred  lines,  the  author  praises  a 
few  of  the  American  poets,  to  whom  he  refers,  and  severely  satirizes  others.  The  "  Sisy- 
phi  Opus,"  alluded  to  in  the  next  title,  is  a"  continuation  of  his  previous  work,  but  mostly 
occupied  with  a  caveat  against  the  introduction  of  foreign  vices  into  the  United  States. 
He  makes  up  a  formidable  list  of  wives  sold  at  Smithfleld,  betting  noblemen  and  bruised 
prize-fighters,  as  an  offset  to  the  stories  by  English  travellers  of  society  in  our  frontier  set- 
tlements." 

—  Sisyphi  Opus  ;  or,  Touches  at  the  Times.     8°,  pp.  62.     Philadelphia, 

1820. 

Walter,  (W.  B.) 

William  Bicker  Walter,  the  son  of  a  Boston  merchant,  was  born  in  that  city  April  19, 
1796.  He  was  the  grandson  of  Rev.  William  Walter,  D.  D.,  an  eminent  clergyman  of  the 
Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  who  was  installed,  July  22,  1764,  Rector  of  Trinity  Church, 
Boston,  and  continued  in  office  until  March  17,  1776,  when,  on  the  evacuation  of  Boston, 
he  went,  with  many  others,  with  General  Howe,  to  Halifax.  He  returned  to  Boston  and 
became  Rector  of  Christ  Church,  May  28,  1792.  He  died  in  office  December  5,  1800.  (See 
"Sprague's  Annals,"  vol.  v,  pp.  226-33.) 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  graduated  at  Bowdoin  College  in  1818.  In  a  sketch  of  him 
in  the  "  History  of  Bowdoin  College,"  we  are  told  that  "  his  college  life  could  hardly  be 
called  happy.  He  seemed  always  to  feel  that  his  superior  refinement  was  not  appreciated 
by  those  around  him.  He  wore,  for  the  most  part,  an  air  of  Byronic  gloom,  and  generally 
kept  himself  secluded.  His  style  of  speaking  was  highly  theatrical.  AVhen  in  the  heat 
and  torrent  of  his  passion  he  endeavored  to  harrow  up  the  feelings  of  his  auditors,  his 
attitudes  and  contortions  often  became  irresistibly  ludicrous.  He  possessed  considerable 
Imaginative  power,  and  wrote  verses  readily  and  in  great  abundance.    Odes,  sonnets  and 


296  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

Walter,  (W.  B.)  —  Gontinued. 

trauslations  from  his  pen  made  their  appearance  in  newspapers  and  magazines.  On  tak- 
ing the  master's  degree  in  1821,  lie  entertained  the  audience  witli  a  poem  styled  tlie 
"  Dream  of  a  Sepulchre."  From  some  impressions,  probably  of  a  hereditary  calling,  he 
began  to  prepare  himself  for  taking  orders  in  the  Episcopal  Church.  This  he  soon  gave 
up.  In  1S22  he  went  into  the  Southern  States  with  the  view  of  giving  lectures  on  poetry, 
etc.  The  attempt  was  unsuccessful.  "  He  was  discouraged,  became  the  prey  of  a  morbid 
melancholy,  and  died  suddenly  in  Charleston,  S.  C,  April  23,1822."  (See  "History  of 
Bowdoin  College,"  pp.  210-11.) 

—  Poems.     8°,  pp.  71.     Boston,  1821. 

—  Sukey.      8°,  pp.  88.     Boston,  1821. 

—  Same.        Baltimore,  1821. 

This  poem  w-as  evidently  suggested  by  Fitz-Greene  Halleck's  "  Fanny."  "  The  story 
is  little  more  than  a  thread  connecting  various  passages  of  description  and  reflection.  The 
poem  extends  to  one  hundred  and  seventy-one  six-line  stanzas,  and  contains  several  melo- 
dious passages,  many  of  which,  however,  arc  close  imitations  of  Byron  and  Montgomery.'' 

Walter,  (W.   H.)     Chorals  and   Hymns,  Ancient  and   Modern,   chiefly 
from  the  German.     First  Part.     Lg.  8°,  pp.  52.     New  York,  1862. 

Wanderer,  The.     A    Rambling  Poem.     By  a  Clerk  in  Market  Street. 
(Anon.)      18°,  pp.  xiii,  107.     Philadelphia,  1836. 

The  author  says  :  "  Should  any  one's  curiosity  be  excited  to  know  who  the  author  is 
(we  merely  suppose  a  case  for  argument's  sake),  it  cannot  be  gratified,  unless  those  who 
may  be  so  Inquisitive  purchase  a  sufficient  number  of  copies  to  line  his  pockets  so  eflfec- 
tually  that  he  may  abandon  his  subordinate,  though  respectable  employment,  which  at 
present  fills  his  mouth;  yea,  unless  it  is  insured,  as  the  author  has  no  relish  whatever  for 
a  garret  and  a  lean  appearance,  the  wise  Shakespeare,  Dryden,  Goldsmith,  Savage,  Burns, 
and  a  host  of  others  to  the  contrary  notwithstanding." 

—  or,  Horatio    and   Letitia,  and  Vales  of  Peace.      (Anon.)      12°,  pp. 

133.     Utica,  1811. 

—  The  Poetical,  etc.      (Anon.)      18°,  pp.  112.     New  York,  1796. 

Walton,  (J.  F.)     The  River  of  Life.     8°,  pp.  8.     New  York,  1856. 

This  poem,  by  J.  Francis  Walton,  was  pronounced  at  the  one  hundred  and  second 
Commencement  of  Columbia  College,  and  printed  by  request. 

War.     The  Sorehead.     (Anon.)     A  Campaign  Satire  for  1872.      8°,  pp. 
44.     New  York,  no  date. 

Warbler.     In  Four  Numbers.     24°,  pp.  217.     Hallowell,  1805. 

Ward,  (J.  AY.) 

James  Warren  Ward  was  born  at  Newark,  N.  J.,  in  1818.  He  pursued  his  studies  in 
the  Boston  Latin  School,  of  which  he  was  a  medal  scholar.  His  tastes  leading  him  to  the 
study  of  the  natural  sciences,  he  became  a  pupil  of  .John  Locke,  Professor  of  Chemistry  in 
the  Ohio  Medical  College.    Some  of  his  early  productions  in  prose  and  verse  were  pub- 


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Ward,  (J.  W.)  —  Continued. 

lished  in  the  Cincinnati  Mirror,  etc.  In  the  science  of  botany  he  became  a  proficient, 
and,  in  1855,  was  co-editor  witli  J.  W.  Warder  in  the  management  of  the  "  Western  Hor- 
ticultural Review."  A  volume  entitled  "  Yorick  and  Other  Poems,"  published  in  Cleve- 
land, Oliio,  in  1838,  was  incorrectly  ascribed  to  him.  Mr.  Ward  is  now  (1886)  the  Secre- 
tary and  Librarian  of  the  Grosvenor  Library,  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

—  The  Song  of  Higher  Water.      8°,  pp.  iv,  30.      New  York  and  Cin- 

cinnati, 1868. 

—  Woman.      12°,  jip.  41.     Cincinnati  and  New  York,  1852. 

Ward,  (M.)     Poems.      18°,  pp.  108.     Plymouth,  N.  H.,  182G. 

Most  of  the  poems  of  Milton  Ward  were  composed  at  the  age  of  fifteen.  One  of  the 
most  beautiful  of  these  was  "  The  Lyre,"  quoted  in  "  Kettell's  Specimens  of  American 
Poetry,"  vol.  iii,  pp.  .340-41. 

Ward,  (N.) 

Nathaniel  Ward  was  born  at  Haverhill,  Suffolk,  England,  in  1570,  graduated  at  Em- 
manuel College,  England,  in  1603,  studied  law  and  practiced  seven  years.  After  a  few 
years'  travel  on  the  Continent  he  returned  to  England,  took  orders  in  the  Established 
Church,  and,  for  a  time,  was  Rector  of  Stondon  Massey,  Essex,  but  was  finally  silenced  by 
Archbishop  Laud  in  1033,  and  came  to  America  in  1034.  "  Perhaps,"  says  Prof.  M.  C. 
Tyler,  "  no  other  Englisliman  who  came  to  America  in  those  days  brought  with  him  more 
of  the  ripeness  that  is  born,  not  only  of  time  and  study,  but  of  distinguished  early  asso- 
ciations, extensive  travel  in  foreign  lands,  and  varied  professional  experience  at  home." 
Not  long  after  his  arri'-al  in  Massachusetts,  he  was  invited  to  become  the  minister  to  the 
churcli  in  Ipswich,  in  a  section  of  the  State  \vliich  bore  the  Indian  name  of  Agavvara. 
Here  he  remained  two  or  three  years  and  then  resigned  on  account  of  failing  health.  For 
a  few  years  more  he  made  liimself  useful  to  the  infant  colony  in  various  ways,  his  legal 
education  fitting  him  to  render  good  service  in  preparing  a  code  of  laws.  (See  "  Massa- 
chusetts Historical  Society  Collection,"  Third  Series,  viii,  191.)  In  1047  he  returned  to 
England,  and  in  1048  became  Rector  of  a  parish  at  Shenfield,  Essex,  retaining  this  posi- 
tion till  his  death  in  1053. 

—  Mercurius  Anti-mechankus  \  Or  The  |  Simple  Coblers  |  Body  |  AVith 
his  Lap-full  of  CVa^crt^s  (or  Take  \  heeds),  Documents,  Advertise- 
ments and  Free  \  monitions  to  all  his  honest  felloiv-trades  \  men- 
Preachers  |  but  more  especially  a  dozen  of  them,  in  or  about  |  the 
City  of  London. 

But  if  these  tilings  continue  so, 

Poore  Scliollcr  whither  will  thou  go? 

Thy  Sciences  arc  children's  knacks. 

Logical  Arts  a  Nose  of  Wax. 

The  Russet  Coats  do  now  defie  thee, 

Alas,  the  buckram  Swaines  out  vie  thee. 

To  Preach,  lo  they  have  Toleration, 

And  they  do  scorne  thine  Ordination; 

O  learned  Slug,  take  notice  of  thy  guides. 

They  work  si.x  days  and  yet  they  Preach  beside. 


298  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

Ward,  (N.)  —  Contimied. 

II(e  nugce  in  seria  ducmit.    Hor. 

Fuma  proxima  flamma. 

By  Theodore  de  la  Guar  den. 
London.,  Printed   for  John  Walker,  at  the  sign  of  the   Starre  in 
Popes-head  alley.     1648. 

Nathaniel  is  a  Hebrew  word,  tlie  Greek  translation  of  which  is  Theodorus,  or,  in  Eng- 
lish, Theodore.  The  French  of  Ward  is  de  la  Guarden.  Hence  the  nom  de  lUume,  Theo- 
dore de  la  Guarden,  or  Nathaniel  Ward. 

We  have  included  this  small  i°  volume  of  52  pages  in  the  "  Collection,"  because  its 
author  lived  long  enough  in  America  to  be  regarded  as  a  citizen  of  Massachusetts.  While 
most  of  the  volume  is  prose,  there  are  a  few  poetical  productions  in  it.  The  volume  when 
it  came  into  the  hands  of  some  previous  owner  wanted  pp.  33-36.  These  four  pages  have 
been  supplied,  by  copy,  the  work  having  been  executed  on  thin  glazed  cloth,  and  so  well 
done  that  it  is  not  easy  to  tell  whether  it  is  printed  or  written,  probably  the  latter.  The 
work  is  rare,  and  in  its  way  exceedingly  quaint  and  curious.  Believing  in  the  necessity  of 
regular  ordination  to  qualify  a  man  to  become  a  preacher,  it  vexed  the  pious  soul  of  worthy 
Mr.  Ward  that  all  sorts  of  persons  took  it  upon  themselves  to  be  expounders  of  the  Word, 
and  preachers  of  the  gospel.  He  proposes,  therefore,  to  take  to  task  sundry  tradesmen  and 
craftsmen  who  set  themselves  up  as  evangelists,  and  gives  his  ghostly  exhortations  to  the 
'•  Handicraft  Preachers,  especially  these  12  that  follow,  who  are,  or  have  been  in  and  about 
the  City  of  London,"  viz. :  The  Confectioner;  The  Smith;  The  Right  and  Left  Shoe- 
Maker;  The  Needless  Tailor  from  his  working  im(posture);  The  Saddler;  The  Porter; 
The  Labyrintliian  Box-maker;  The  All-be-Smearing  Soap-boiler,  or  the  Sleepy  Sopor; 
The  Both-handed  Glover;  The  White-handed  Mealman;  The  Chicken-man;  and.  The 
Button-maker. 

Our  limits  forbid  our  giving  but  a  single  extract  from  this  singular  and  most  witty  pro- 
duction of  Nathaniel  Ward.  We  select  from  the  exhortation  to  the  "  The  Studding  Sad- 
dler." 

"  Saddle  me  this  Querie. 
When  was  the  tajjie  mistaken  for  the  reines,  the  saddle  thrust  under  the  bellp,  and  the 
rider's  head  shut  up  in  a  sacliel-bag  (by  Hada-I-ioist  and  Shall-J-ioink)  to  travell  to  Morse- 
head-down  ? 

Tlie  Horsetaile  or  conclusion. 
Who  puts  a  doublet  on  an  Horse, 

Or  on  a  man  a  saddle, 
Or  claps  a  stockin  on  his  head. 

Sure  that  mans  braine  is  addle. 
Then  let  not  men  ungilted  padle 

In  Streames  of  Sanctuary, 
Above  horse  backs  to  fidle  ladle 

With  what  their  heads  cann't  carry. 
Then  either  leave  thy  trade  or  cease  to  Teach 

abandon  all  thy  drifts 
Unless  thy  Gyant  Grace  so  high  can  reach, 

as  to  make  void  all  Gifts. 
O  meddle  not  above  the  Pileon, 
Thou  knowst  thy  self  it  is  a  silly  one. 
The  Kingdome  will  be  ne're  the  worse 
By  putting  tJi'  Sadie  o'  th'  right  Horse." 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  299 

Ward,  (N.)  —  Continued. 
—  The  j  Simple  Cobler  |  of  |  Agawam  |  in  America.  |  "Willing  |  To 
help  Meud  his  Native  Country,  lamen  |  tably  tattered,  both  in  the 
upper  I  Leather  |  and  sole,  with  all  the  honest  stitches  he  [  can 
take.  I  And  as  willing  never  to  be  paid  for  his  work  |  by  Old  Eng- 
lish wonted  pay.  |  It  is  his  Trade  to  patch  all  the  year  long,  gratis.  \ 
Therefore  |  I  Pray  Gentlemen  keep  your  Purses.  |  By  Theodore 
de  le  Guard.  |  The  Fifth  Edition,  with  some  Amendments.  |  In 
rebus  arduis  actenui  spe,  fortissima  \  quoeque  consilia  tutissima  sunt . 
Cic.  I  In  English,  | 

When  boots  and  shoes  are  torn  up  to  the  lefts,  | 
Cobblers  must  thrust  their  awles  up  to  the  hefts.  | 

This  is  no  time  to  fear  Appelles  gramm :  \ 
Ne  sutor  quidem  ultra  crepidam.  \ 

London  :  Printed  by  J.  D.  £  R.  I.  for  Stephen  Botvtell,  at  |  the 
sign  of  the  Bible,  in  Pope's  Head  Alley,  1647.  Re  |  printed  at 
Boston  in  H.  England,  for  Daniel  Henchman,  \  at  his  Shop  in 
King's  Street,  1713. 

The  above  is  the  title  of  a  remarkable  book;  a  small  i°.  "  To  the  Reader,"  one  leaf. 
Text,  pp.  5-59,  largely  prose.    A  few  poetical  productions  in  the  volume. 

Professor  Tyler,  in  his  "  History  of  American  Literature,"  vol.  1,  pp.  229-40,  has  given 
an  admirable  notice  of  this  work,  witli  copious  extracts  from  the  same.  In  the  "  Monthly 
Anthology"  for  May,  1809,  there  is  an  article  on  Ward  written  by  Dr.  J.  G.  Cogswell,  who 
says  :  "  For  some  time  after  its  publication  it  was  so  much  read  and  admired  that  four 
editions  of  it  were  printed  in  London  w^ithin  a  few  years.  But  when  its  style  became  obso- 
lete, its  allusions  unknown,  and  the  subjects  of  which  it  treats  less  interesting,  it  laid  neg- 
lected on  the  shelves,  the  dust  was  suffered  to  gather  upon  its  leaves,  and  it  has  now  long 
been  noticed  only  by  those  whose  reverence  for  every  American  relict  may  have  led  them 
to  examine  its  contents."  That  Dr.  Cogswell  did  not  speak  amiss  when  he  referred  to 
the  style  as  being  in  some  parts,  at  least,  of  the  volume  "  obsolete,"  is  evident  from  the 
following  with  regard  to  which  Professor  Tyler  says  :  "  He  will  be  a  bold  man  who  can 
affirm  at  sight  in  what  languago  tliis  sentence  is  written,  or  what  it  means"  :  "  If  the  whole 
conclave  of  hell  can  so  compromise  exadvarse  and  diametrical  contradictions  as  to  com- 
polltize  such  a  multimonstrous  manfrey  of  heteroclites  and  quic(iuilibets  quality,  I  trust  I 
may  say  with  all  humble  reverence,  they  can  do  more  tlian  the  Senate  of  heaven."  The 
address  to  King  Charles  I.,  whom  he  arraigns  as  the  cause  of  the  fearful  state  of  affairs  in 
England,  is  bitter  to  the  verge  of  absolute  ferocity.    It  is  too  long  to  quote. 

As  if  writing  from  his  Agawam  home  in  the  new  world,  the  Cobbler  says  : 

"  So  farewell  England  old, 
If  evil  times  ensue. 
Let  good  men  come  to  us, 
Wce'l  welcome  them  to  New. 
41 


300  HARKIS    COLLECTION. 

"Ward,  (N.)  —  Continued. 

"  And  farewell  Ilonor'd  Friends, 
If  happy  days  ensue, 
You'l  have  some  Guests  from  hence. 
Pray  Welcome  us  to  you. 

"  And  farewell  simple  World, 
If  thou'lt  thy  Cranium  mend, 
There  is  my  Last  and  AH. 
And  a  Shoem-Akers 

End." 

It  has  sometimes  been  claimed  that  the  oft-quoted  words.  Fiat  jtisHUa  mat  c(elum, 
"  let  justice  be  done  though  the  heavens  fall,"  originated  with  Lord  Mansfield,  who  used 
them  in  the  celebrated  case  of  The  King  vs.  Wilkes,  1768.  The  expression,  however,  is 
found  on  p.  13  of  this  volume,  thus  antedating,  by  twenty-one  years.  Lord  Mansfield's  use 
of  it. 

Ward,  (S). 

Samuel  Ward,  a  son  of  Samuel  W.,  an  eminent  merchant  of  New  York,  and  descended 
from  a  distinguished  Rhode  Island  ancestry,  at  the  head  of  which  was  Roger  Williams, 
was  born  at  New  York  in  January,  1813.  His  grandfather,  Lieutenant  Colonel  Ward,  of 
Revolutionary  fame,  having,  in  1810,  removed  to  Long  Island,  the  subject  of  this  sketch 
was  an  inmate  of  his  family  while  pursuing  his  studies  preparatory  to  entering  college. 
Subsequently  he  became  a  pupil  of  Dr.  Cogswell  and  George  Bancroft  at  the  Round  Hill 
School  at  Northampton,  Mass.,  and  graduated  at  Columbia  College,  New  York,  in  1831. 
Several  of  his  classmates  became  eminent  in  their  professions.  Among  them  were  Rev.  Dr. 
W.  E.  Eigenbrodt,  of  the  General  'i;iieological  Seminary,  N.  Y. ;  President  Robert  Emory, 
D.  D.,  of  Dickinson  College,  1842-48;  Hon.  J.  L.  O'Sullivan,  United  States  Minister  to  Por- 
tugal; Rev.  Dr.  R.  G.  Vermilye,  of  the  Theological  Institute,  Conn.,  and  Professor  Robert 
Watts,  Professor  of  Anatomy,  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgery,  New  York.  After  grad- 
uating, Mr.  Ward  went  abroad  to  complete  his  studies,  and  spent  several  years  in  Germany. 
He  was  a  man  of  most  versatile  powers  and  talents,  speaking  several  languages  so  cor- 
rectly  as  to  be  mistaken  for  a  native  of  other  countries  than  his  own.  In  subsequent 
years,  as  a  man  of  letters,  and  as  the  friend  of  literary  men,  statesmen  and  artists,  he  had 
a  warm  plnce  in  the  hearts  of  a  large  circle  of  acquaintances.  His  death,  the  result  of  a 
severe  attack  of  malarial  disease  contracted  during  a  short  stay  in  Naples,  occurred  at 
Pegli,  Italy,  May  19,  1884.    Mr.  Ward  was  a  brother  of  Mrs.  Julia  Ward  Howe. 

—  Lyrical  Recreations.     1G°,  pp.  xvi,  271.     New  York,  1865. 

The  Introduction  is  in  the  form  of  a  letter  to  Samuel  L.  M.  Barlow.  The  writer  says  : 
"  When  a  bachelor  overripe  takes  to  himself  a  wife  in  the  bud,  he  is  apt  to  imagine  that 
he  owes  his  friends  some  explanations.  It  is  the  privilege  of  youth  to  woo  Euterpe,  and 
my  hair  is  gray.  Qui  s'excuse  s'accuse,  I  know,  but  when  the  accusation  is  sure  to  come, 
the  excuse  may  as  well  get  the  start  of  it;  and  turning  rhymster  as  I  do  on  the  wrong 
side  of  half  a  century,  I  venture  to  entreat  you,  who  bear  all  burdens  lightly,  to  circulate 
my  apologia  amony  those  who  may  care  to  hear  it." 

—  Same.      16°,  pp.  xii,  247.     London,  1883. 

Some  of  the  poems  in  the  first  series  are  not  reprinted  in  this,  and  there  are  numerous 
additions  in  the  second  series,  some  of  them  in  French.  Special  interest  is  attached  to 
this  volume,  it  being  a  presentation  copy  from  the  author  to  Senator  Anthony,  and  it  is 
said  to  have  been  the  last  book  whose  pages  were  turned  over  by  him  prior  to  his  decease. 


AMERICAN    POETKY.  301  ' 

Ward,  (T.) 

Thomas  Ward  was  born  at  Newark,  N.  J.,  June  8,  3807,  studied  at  Princeton,  but  his 
name  does  not  appear  as  a  graduate.  He  received  the  degree  of  M.  D.  from  Rutgers  Col- 
lege, N.  Y.    His  nom  deplume  was  "  Flaccas."    He  died  in  1873. 

—  A  Month  of  Freedom.     12°,  pp.  90.     New  York,  1837. 

—  Passaic.     A  Group  of  Poems  touching  that  River,  etc.      12°.     New 

York,  1842. 

Ward  WELL,   (S.  S.) 

Mr.  Wardwell  was  a  native  of  Rliode  Island. 

—  Sabbath-school  Melodies.      12°,  pp.  43.     Boston,  no  date. 

—  The  Village   of  Hermonia.      A  Temperance   Poem,  etc.       12°,   pp. 

32.     Providence,  1839. 

Ware,  (Catherine  and  Eleanor.)     The  Wife  of  Leon,  etc.     12°,   pp. 
viii,  256.     New  York,  1844. 

Ware,  (H.,  Jr.) 

Henry  Ware,  Jr.,  was  born  at  Hingham,  Mass.,  April  21,  1794,  graduated  at  Harvard 
in  1812,  was  pastor  of  the  Second  Congregational  (Unitarian)  church,  Boston,  1817-30, 
Parkman  Professor  of  Divinity,  Cambridge,  1830-42.    He  died  September  22,  1843. 

—  Poem  pronounced   at  Cambridge,  Mass.,  February  23,  1815,  at  the 

Celebration  of  Peace  between  the  United  States  and  Great  Britain. 
8°,  pp.  11.     Cambridge,  1815. 

—  The  Feast  of  Tabernacles.     12°,  pp.  x,  38.     Cambridge,  1837. 

—  The  Vision  of  Liberty.     Harvard  Phi  Beta  Kappa  Poem,  August  27, 

1824.     8°,  pp.  12.     Boston,  1824. 

Warfield,  (Mrs.  C.  A.)  and  Lee,  (Mrs.  E.  P.) 

The  writers  were  sisters,  Catherine  Ann  and  Eleanor  Percy  Ware.  They  were  born 
at  Washington,  Miss.,  the  former,  June  14,  1815,  the  latter  in  1820.  Catherine  married 
Elisha  AVarfleld,  Jr.,  of  Lexington,  Ky.,  and  resided  in  that  city  for  many  years,  and  then 
removed  to  a  country  residence  about  sixteen  miles  from  Lexington.  She  died  May  23, 
1878.  Eleanor  married  H.  W.  Lee,  of  Vicksburg.  She  died  October  14,  1849.  They  were 
the  authors  of  "  The  Wife  of  Leon,"  etc.    See  above. 

—  The  Indian  Chamber,  etc.      12°,  pp.  264.     New  York,  1846. 

Warrdeneau,  (D.  De.)     The  Gift.     A  Tale  of  the  AVashington  Soldiers' 
and  Sailors'  Orphans'  Fair.     8°,  pp.  10.     AVashington,  1866.  , 

Warren,  (Mrs.  Mercy.) 

Mercy  Otis  was  born  at  Barnstable,  Mass.,  September  25, 1728,  married  James  Warren, 
a  merchant  of  Plymouth,  in  1754,  and  distinguished  herself  for  the  part  she  took  as  writer, 
counsellor,  etc.,  in  the  Revolution.    She  died  in  1814.      (See  Duyckinck,  vol.  1,  pp.  163-04.) 


302  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

"VVarren,  (Mhs.  Mercy.) — Continued. 

Griswold  says:  "her  History  of  the  '  Rise,  Progress  ami  Termination  of  the  American 
War '  will  always  be  consulted  as  one  of  the  most  interesting  original  authorities  upon 
the  Revolution." 

—  Adulateur,  The.     A  Tragedy.      12°,  pp.  32.     Boston,  1773. 

—  Poems.      12°,  pp.  252.     Boston,  1790. 

Warren,  (O.  G.)     Dream  of  the  HighLands.      12°,  pp.  76.     New  York, 
1840. 

A  spiritualistic  writer. 

Warwick,  Alabama  ;  or,  Here  we  Rest.     Sq.   8°,  not  paged.     Cleve- 
land, Ohio,  no  date. 

Washburn,  (H.  S.) 

Henry  Stevenson  Washburn  was  born  at  Providence,  R.  I.,  in  1813,  studied  at  the 
Worcester  Academy  and  at  Brown  University,  but  did  not  graduate  on  account  of  ill 
health;  for  seven  years  was  depositarian  of  the  New  England  Sunday-school  Union,  and 
subsequently  was  in  secular  business  in  Worcester  and  Boston,  three  years  was  in  the 
Massachusetts  Legislature.  He  established  the  "Young  Reaper,"  one  of  the  periodicals  of 
the  American  Baptist  Publication  Society,  Philadelphia. 

From  January  to  May.       Delivered  to  the    Massachusetts    House    of 

Representatives,  May  7,  1872.      18°,  pp.  29.     Boston,  1872. 

—  Visions  of  the  State  House.     The  Dream  of  a  Night.      1S°,   pp.    21. 

Boston,  1871. 
Washburn,  (J.  B.)     Yo  Semite.     8°,  pp.  15.     San  Francisco,  1871. 
Washington's  Birth-Day.     (Anon.)     Lg.    12°,   pp.  viii,  55.-    Albany, 

1812. 
Washington,  (E.  K.)     Poems.     18°,  pp.  iv,  92.     Philadelphia,  1867. 

Washington,  George,  Hymns  and  Odes  Composed  on  the  Death  of. 

(Compiler  Anon.)      12°,  pp.  12.     Portsmouth,  1800.' 

Waterbury,  (J.  B.) 

Jared  Bell  Waterbury  was  born  at  New  York  in  1799,  and  graduated  at  Y'ale  in  1822. 
He  wrote  a  large  number  of  religious  books.  Allibone  mentions  thirty-two.  He  was 
pastor  of  churches  in  Northampton,  Mass.,  Hudson,  N.  \'.,  Bowdoin  street,  Boston, 
Stamford,  Conn.,  was  Secretary  of  the  Brooklyn  Branch  of  the  Christian  Commission  in 
the  civil  war.    He  died  December  31,  187C. 

—  The  Brighter  Age.     12°.     Boston,  1830. 
Waterston,  (R.  C.) 

Robert  Cassie  Waterston  was  born  at  Kennebunk,  Me.,  in  1812.  He  pursued  his  theo. 
logical  studies  at  the  Harvard  Divinity  School,  and  for  five  years  had  charge  of  a  sailors* 


AMERICAN    POETEY.  303 

Waterstox,  (R.  C.)  —  Contimied. 

Sunday-school.  He  was  minister  at  large  for  six  years  In  Boston  under  the  auspices  of 
the  fraternity  of  (Unitarian)  churches,  and  then  became  pastor  of  the  church  of  the  Sav- 
iour in  that  city,  which  position  he  held  for  seven  years.  He  has  taken  a  deep  interest  in 
questions  of  reform,  education,  etc.,  and  wrote  much  on  these  subjects.  Harvard  College, 
in  1S44,  conferred  on  him  the  degree  of  A.  M. 

—  The  Widow's  Son.     8°,  pp.  14.     Boston,  1843. 

Watkins,  (Frances  E.)     Poems.     18°,  pp.  40.     Boston,  1854. 

Watts,  (I.,  D.  D.)     The  Psalms  of  David.     24°,  pp.  274.     New  York, 
1792. 

—  Same.     24°,  pp.  31 G.     New  Y^ork,  1795. 

—  Same.     With  Hymns.     24°.      Psalms,    pp.  312.      Hymns,  pp.  272. 

Boston,  1801. 

—  Same.     With   additions   by  Dr.   T.    Dwight.     32°,   pp.  498.     New 

Y^ork,  1803. 

—  Same.     Corrected   by   J.    Barlow.       4th    Edition.       18°,    pp.    332. 

Hartford,  no  date. 

—  Same.      1822. 

Watterston,  (G.)     The  Child  of  Feeling.     A  Comedy.     18°.  pp.   113. 
Georgetown,  1809. 

Weal-Reaf.     Record  of  Essex  Institute   held  at  Salem,  Mass.,  in  Sep- 
tember, 1860.     Sq.  8°,  pp.  56.     Salem,  1860. 

Several  short  poems  in  the  volume. 

Weaver,  (W.  L.)      Battle   of  the  Frogs   at  Windham,  Conn.,  in  July, 
1758.     8°,  pp.  31.     Willimantic,  1857. 

This  poem  is  founded  upon  what  is  known  as  "  the  old  story  of  the  frogs  of  AVindham, 
Conn."  The  frogs  referred  to  had  a  pitched  battle  for  the  possession  of  the  water  remain- 
ing in  a  ditch,  which,  in  a  time  of  drought,  had  become  nearly  dry.  The  event  occurred 
on  a  dark  night  in  July,  1758,  and  the  people  were  greatly  alarmed  by  the  hideous  outcries 
of  the  belligerents. 

The  account  given  by  the  Rev.  Samuel  Peters,  in  his  "General  History  of  Connecticut," 
is  a  fine  illustration  of  the  Munchausen  style  of  writing  : 

"One  night  in  July,  1758,  the  frogs  of  an  artificial  pond  three  miles  square"  (really 
never  a  fourth  of  a  mile  in  extent),  "  and  about  five  miles  from  Windham  "  (about  one 
mile),  finding  the  water  dried  up  left  the  place  in  a  body  and  marched  or  rather  hopped 
towards  Winnomantic  river.  They  were  under  the  necessity  of  taking  the  road  and  going 
through  the  town,  which  they  entered  about  midnight.  The  bull-frogs  were  the  leaders 
and  the  pipers  followed  without  number.  Tltei/  filled  a  road  forty  yards  wide  for  four 
miles  in  length,  and  vierefor  several  hours'in  passing  through  the  toivn  unusually  clamor, 
ous.  The  inhabitants  were  equally  perplexed  and  frightened ;  some  expected  to  find  an 
army  of  French  and  Indians;  others  feared  an  earthquake  and  dissolution  of  nature.    The 


304  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

"Weaver,  (W.  L.)  —  Continued. 

consternation  was  universal.  Old  and  young,  ninle  and  female,  tied  naked  from  their  beds 
with  more  shrieking  tlian  those  of  the  frogs.  The  event  was  fatal  to  several  women.  The 
men,  after  a  flight  of  half  a  mile,  in  which  they  met  with  many  broken  shins,  finding  no 
enemies  in  pursuit  of  them  made  a  halt  and  summoned  resolution  enough  to  venture  back 
to  their  wives  and  children,  when  they  distinctly  heard  from  the  enemy's  camp  these 
■words,  Wi(jht,  HUderken,  Dier  TeU.  This  lust  they  thought  meant  treaty,  and  plucking 
up  courage  they  sent  a  triumvirate  to  capitulate  with  the  supposed  French  and  Indians. 
These  three  men  approached  in  their  shirts  and  begged  to  speak  with  the  General,  but  it 
being  dark  and  no  answer  given  they  were  sorely  agitated  for  some  time  betwixt  hope 
and  fear;  at  length,  however,  they  discovered  that  the  dreaded  inimical  army  was  an 
army  of  thirsty  frogs  going  to  the  river  for  a  little  water." 
This  volume  contains  three  poems. 

1.  The  Frogs  of  Windham,  an  old  Colony  tale  founded  on  facts.  This  ballad,  founded 
on  Peters'  account  of  the  affair,  appeared  originally  in  the  Providence  Gazette. 

2.  Bull  Frog  Song,  originally  entitled  '' Laicyers  and  Bull  Frogs."  A  more  ancient 
copy  of  this  ballad  had  the  following  title  :  "A  trtie  relation  of  a  strange  battle  betiveen 
some  Lawyers  and  Bull  Frogs,  set  forth  in  a  new  song,  written  by  a  jolly  farmer  of  New 
England." 

3.  Tlie  Bull-Frog  Fight;  a  Ballad  of  the  old  time.  The  end  of  the  fight  is  thus 
described :  ' 

"  The  courage  of  the  Windham  men 
Now  rose  exceeding  high  ; 
And  so  they  blazed  away  till  dawn 
Lit  up  the  eastern  sky. 

"  '  Feung,' '  pe-ung,' '  go-row,^ '  go-roic,' 

'  Chug,' '  chug,'  '  peep,' '  peep,'  and  '  tee-te;' 
'  Cease  firing,  boys,'  the  Captain  said, 
'  The  dogs  desire  a  treaty. 

"  Our  heroes  rested  on  their  arms 
Till  morning's  light  revealed 
The  bodies  of  the  prostrated  frogs, 
Stretched  out  upon  the  field." 

Weaver,  (Lieutenant.)     Journals  of  the  Ocean,   etc.     12°,  pp.    228. 

New  York,  1826. 
Webb,  (F.  J.)     Uncle  Tom  Dramatized.      12°,   pp.63.     London,  1856. 
Webb,  (Mrs.  M.  E.)     The  Christian  Slave.    8°,  pp.  iv,  67.     Boston,  1855. 
Webber,  (S.) 

Samuel  Webber,  M.  D.,  was  born  at  Cambridge,  Mass.,  not  far  from  1795,  graduated 
at  Harvard  1815,  pursued  his  profession  in  Charlestown,  and  in  1822  removed  to  New  York, 
where  he  died  in  1880. 

—  Logan.     An  Indian  Tale,  etc.     18°,  pp.  54.     Cambridge,  1821. 

—  War.      18°,  pp.  vi,  48.     Cambridge,   182.3. 

Webster,    (Mrs.   M.   M.)      Pocahontas.      A  Legend.      12°,   pp.   220. 
Philadelphia,  1840. 


AMEEICAN    POETRY.  305 

Weekes,  (E.)      Poems.      12°,  pp.  368.      New  York,  1820. 

—  Same.     2d  Edition.      12°,  pp.  418.     New  York,  1823. 

—  The  Advantages  and  Disadvantages  of  the  Marriage  State,  as  entered 

into  with  Religious  or  Irreligious  Persons.     18°,  pp.  48.    Stanford, 
1805. 

Weeks.    (R.)      The    Life   of  William  Pen n,  etc.      12°,  pp.186.     New 
York,  1822. 

Weeks,  (R.  K.)     Episodes  and  Lyric  Pieces.     12°,  pp.  v,  164.     New 
York,  1870. 

—  Poems.      12°,  pp.  142.     New  York,  1866. 

Weems,  (M.  L.) 

JIason  L.  "Weems,  an  Episcopal  clergyman,  who  sometimes  performed  service  at 
Pohick  Church,  near  Mt.  Vernon,  where  Washington  attended.  His  most  celebrated  work 
was  "  The  Life  of  George  Washington,"  which  reached  more  than  forty  editions.  He 
died  at  Beaufort,  S.  C,  May  23,  1825. 

—  Hymen's  Recruiting  Sergeant ;  or.  The  Matrimonial  Tat-Too  for  the 

Old  Bachelors.     4°,  pp.  19.     Philadelphia,  180.5. 

—  Same.      18°,  pp.  52.     Hartford. 

Wehner,    (J.  H.,  M.  D.)       Principles    Form    Character.      A   Comedy. 
12°,  pp.  23.     New  York,  1859. 

Weiss,  (P.) 

Paul  Weiss  was  born  at  Bethlehem,  Pa.,  June  22,  176.3,  and  died  October  .31,  1840.  The 
translation  of  John  Gilpin  was  made  while  he  was  pastor  at  Emraaus,  Pa.,  about  1813. 

—  John  Gilpin,  translated  into  German.      12°,  pp.  25.     Philadelphia, 

1869. 

Welby,  (Mrs.  A.  B.)      (Amelia,  jJsewfZ.) 

Amelia  B.  Coppuck  was  born  at  St.  Michaels,  Md.,  February  3,  1819.  When  a  child 
she  removed  with  her  parents  to  Kentucky,  and  resided  in  Lexington  and  Louisville.  In 
1838  she  married  Mr.  George  B.  Welby.  She  began  to  write  over  the  signature  of  "  Ame- 
lia "  in  the  Louisville  Journal  in  18.37.  Her  collected  poems  have  passed  through  sevci'al 
editions.    She  died  at  Louisville,  Ky.,  May  3,  1852. 

—  Poems.     2d  PMition.      12°,  pp.  vii,  200.     New  York,  1846. 

—  Same.      A    new   Enlarged    Edition.      Illustrated.     Lg.   8°,  pp.  264. 

NeAv  York  and  Phihidelphia,  1850. 

Welch,  (J.  W.)     The   Crowning  Gift  of  Heaven.     8°,  pp.  48.     Hunt- 
ington, Pa.,  1873. 

Wellek,  (Catherine.)     The  Medley.     12°,  pp.  192.     New  York,  1810. 


306  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

Wellman,  (Mas.   Mary  W.)     Poem,  etc.,  suggested  by  the  Death  of 

Hon.  Daniel  Webster.      12°.     Boston,  1854. 
Wells,  (Anna  M.) 

Anna  Maria  WoUs  was  a  sister  of  Mrs.  F.  S.  Osj^oocl,  and  was  born  in  Gloucester 
Mass.,  in  179".  In  1829  she  married  Tliomas  Wells,  United  States  Revenue  Service,  and 
took  up  her  residence  in  Boston. 

—  Poems.     12°.     Boston,  1830. 

Bound  up  in  this  volume  are  poems  by  Mrs.  Sarah  J.  Hale  and  Mrs.  Littlefield. 

—  Same.     Poems  and  Juvenile  Sketches.      12°,  pp.  99.     Boston,  1830. 

Wept-of-the-Wish-Ton-Wish.  A  Drama.  (Anon.)  12°,  pp.  26. 
New  York,  1856. 

Wesleyan  Checks  ;  or.  Hints  in  Satire.  Occasioned  by  reading 
Bishop  Musgrave's  Book  on  the  Polity  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church.      (By  Fletcheran,  j9sei<f7.)      12°,  pp.  21.    Baltimoi'e,  1843. 

West  Point  Life.  (Anon.)  A  Poem  read  before  a  Public  Meeting  of 
the  Dialectic  Society,  United  States  Military  Academy,  March  5, 
1859.     8°,  pp.  16.     No  place,  no  date. 

Western  Cousin,  Letters  to.  (Anon.  Entered  by  Ruth  N.  Crom- 
well.)    8°,  pp.  36.     New  York,  1868. 

Westlake,'(J.  W.)     Anastasis.     8°,  pp.  19.     New  York,  1854. 

Weston,  (E.  P.) 

Edward  Payson  AYeston  was  born  at  Boothbay,  Me.,  January  19,  1819.  (His  father,  a 
Congregational  minister,  subsequently  became  pastor  of  a  church  in  Cumberland,  Me.) 
He  graduated  at  Bowdoin  College  in  1839.  For  seven  years,  1840-47,  he  was  the  Principal 
of  Lewiston  Falls,  Me.,  Academy,  and  then,  for  thirteen  years,  1847-00,  he  had  charge  of 
the  Maine  Female  Seminary  at  Gorham,  Me.  In  1860  he  was  appointed  State  Superin- 
tendent of  Schools,  and,  while  iu  ofKce,  was  instrumental  in  establishing  the  Normal-School 
system,  himself  opening  the  first  institution  in  Farmington.  For  four  years,  18C5-69,  he 
had  cliarge  of  the  Abbott  Family  School  for  boys  at  Farmington.  In  1860  he  removed  to 
Lake  Forest,  111.,  where  for  seven  years,  1869-76,  he  conducted  a  seminary  lor  young  ladies. 
In  1876  he  opened  a  similar  institution  at  Highland  Park,  chartered  under  the  name  of 
"  The  Highland  College  for  Women," 

—  The  Bowdoin  Poets.      12°,  pp.  ix,  188.     Brunswick,  1840. 

Weston,  (J.  M.)     Lucretia  Borgia.     A  Drama.      12°,  pp.  60.     Boston, 

no  date. 
Wetmore,  (P.  M.) 

Prosper  Montgomery  Wetmore  was  born  at  Stratford,  Conn.,  February  14,  1798,  and 
in  early  life  removed  to  New  Y'ork  and  entered  upon  a  successful  mercantile  career.  He 
was  the  patron  of  art  and  good  learning,  and  a  distinguished  and  most  useful  member  of 
the  New  York  Historical  Society.    He  died  at  Great  Neck,  L.  I.,  March  16,  1876. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  307 

Wetmore,  (P.  M.)  —  Continued. 

—  Lexington,  etc.     8°,  pp.  87.     New  York,  1830. 

Wharton,  (J.,  M.  D.)      The   Virginia   Wreath.       16°,  pp.  105.     Win- 
chester, 1814. 

What  I  Think.     A  Satire.     (Anon.)     12°,  pp.  v,  45.    No  place,  1859. 

Wheat-Sheaf,  The.      A   Collection  of  Prose    and   Poetical   Extracts. 
12°,  pp.  xi,  416.     Philadelphia,  1857. 

Wheatley,  (Phillis.) 

a  slave,  born  in  Africa  about  1754,  came  into  possession  of  John  VVheatly,  of  Boston, 
and  became  a  prodigy  of  intellectual  ability,  writing,  before  she  was  seventeen,  letters  and 
poems  which  attracted  the  attention  of  scholars.  Her  married  life  with  one  John  Peters, 
a  colored  man,  was  very  unhappy.    She  died  December  5,  1784. 

—  Elegaic    Poem    on    the  Deatli  of  George  Whitefield.       12°,  pp.   3. 

Boston  and  London,  1771. 

—  Poems.     Sm.  8°,  pp.  124.     London,  1773. 

—  Same.      16°,  pp.  89.     Albany,  1793. 

Elegantly  bound  by  Bedford. 

—  Same.     Bound  in  Vol.  IT,  Negro  Equalled,  etc.      12°.    Philadelphia, 

1801. 

—  Same.      12°.     Walpole,  N.  H.,  1802. 

—  Same.     With  Memoir.     Sm.  8°,  pp.  103.     Boston,  1834. 

—  Same.     2d  Edition.      18°,  pp.  110.     Boston,  1835. 

—  Same.     3d  Edition.      18°,  pp.  135.     Boston,  1838. 

Wheeler,  (A.)       Liimortality  ;  or.   The  Pilgrim's   Dream.     8°,  pp.  88. 
New  York,  1844. 

—  The  Age.     8°,  pp.  vi,  24.     New  York,  1845. 

Wheeler,  (Ella.)     Poems  of  Passion.     12°,  pp.  100.     Chicago,  1883. 
Wheelock,  (0.)     Original  Poems.      18°,  pp.  32.     No  title-page. 
Wheler,  (C.  S.) 

Charles  S.  Wheler,  editor  of  Pontiac  Jaclcsonian,  has  written  for  several  periodicals 
under  the  nom  deplume  of  "  Stern  Wheeler." 

—  The  Winnowing.      12°,  pp.  57.     Boston,  1851. 

Whigs  and  Democrats.     A  Comedy.     (Anon.)      12°,  pp.  vi,  80.    Rich- 
mond, 1839. 
42 


308  IIAKKIS    COLLECTION. 

"NViiirrLK,  (Frances  II.) 

A  niitivo  of  Ilhode  Island. 

—  The  Original.     12°,  pp.  108.     Providence,  1829. 

—  The   Envoy  from  Free   Hearts  to  tlie  Free.       18°,  pp.  112.      Paw- 

tucket,  R.  I.,  1840. 

Whipple,   (O.)     The  Historic   Progress  of  Civil  and  Rational  Liberty, 
etc.      12°,  pp.  54.     Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  1802. 

"VVhippoorwill.       (Byron,   a  pseiid.  for  Peleg  Sturtevant.)     Orandalie. 

8°,  pp.  56.     Hudson,  1825. 
Whitaker,  (H.  C.) 

Henry  Claj-  Whitaker  was  born  at  Providence,  R.  I.,  May  25,  1818,  and  graduated  at 
Brown  University  in  the  class  of  1838.  As  a  graceful  writer  of  poetry,  the  productions  of 
his  pen  have  always  been  welcomed  in  his  native  city. 

—  Old-Fashioned  Sounds.      12°,  pp.  4.     No  place,  no  date. 

—  Poem  before  the    Rhode  Island    Historical    Society,  July  19,   1872. 

8°,  pp.  7.     Providence,  1873. 

—  Same.     Opening  of  the  new  rooms  of  the  Franklin  Lyceum,  Provi- 

dence, November  19,  1858.     8°,  pp.  14.     Providence,  1859. 

—  Same.     July  5,  1875.     8°,  pp.  8.     Providence,  1875. 

Whitaker,  (Mary  S.)     Poems.     12°,  pp.  iv,  300.     Charleston,  1850. 
White,  (C.  W.)      Comfort  to  Mourners.      18°,  pp.  36.     LoAvell,  no  date. 
White,  (J.  B.) 

John  Blake  White,  a  Southern  poet,  was  the  author  of  "  Mysteries  of  the  Castle," 
"  Modern  Honour,"  etc. 

—  Foscari ;    or.    The    Venetian    Exile.       A    Tragedy.       12°,    pp.   52. 

Charleston,  1805. 

AVhite,  (J.  J.) 

He  is  the  author  of  "Exposition  of  tlie  Church  of  Christ  and  its  Doctrines,"  forming  a 
Supplement  to  "  The  End  of  Controversy  Controverted."    12°,  pp.  233.    Philadelphia,  1855. 

—  Peace  and  other  Poems.     12°,  pp.  126.     Philadelphia,  1867. 

White,  Rose  and  Red.     A  Love  Story.     By  the  author  of  "  St.  Abe." 
12°,  pp.  xii,  242.     Boston,  1873. 

White,  (R.  G.) 

Richard  Grant  White  was  born  at  New  York  in  1821,  graduated  at  the  University  of 
New  York  183i),  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  1845.  His  life  was  devoted  chiefly  to  literary 
pursuits,  and  especially  to  "  Shakspeariana."    He  died  April  8,  1885. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  309 

White,  (R.  G.)  —  Continued. 

—  National  Hymns.     8°,  pp.  x,  152.     New  York,  1861. 

—  Poetry,  Lyrical,  etc.,  of  the  Civil  War.     Selected  and  edited  by.    8°, 

pp.  xxii,  329.     New  York,  1866. 

White,    (W.   A.)       Bethel.       Twenty-fifth   Anniversary  of  St.   James' 
Church,  Dunnington,  Pa.     8°,  pp.  10.     Philadelphia,  1868. 

—  Poems  by  a  Priest.      12°,  pp.  35.     Salisbury,  Md.,  1851. 

—  Following  Jesus,  etc.     12°,  pp.  84.     Philadelphia,  1845. 

White,  (W.   C.)     The   Clergyman's  Daughter.     A  Tragedy.      18°,  pp. 
96.     Boston,  1810. 

—  Orlando  ;  or.  Parental  Persecution.     A  Tragedy.     18°,  pp.  64.     Bos- 

ton, 1797. 

Whited  Sepulchre,  The.     By  Sophia.     8°,  pp.  48.     Nashua,  1869. 

Whitefield,  (J.  M.)     America,  etc.     18°,  pp.  viii,  85.     Buffalo,  1852. 

Whitehead,  (L.,  Sr.)     New  House  that  Jack  Built.     18°,  pp.  29.     New 
York,  1865. 

Whiteman,  (W.  a.)     Who  Killed  the  Writ?     4°,  pp.  4.     Philadelphia, 
1862. 

On  large  paper.    Only  twenty  copies  printed.    No.  13. 

Whiting,  (H.) 

Henry  'WhiUng  was  born  at  Lancaster,  Mass.,  about  1790,  and  was  in  tlie  United  States 
Army  and  brevetted  Brigadier-General  for  services  at  Buena  Vista,  February  2.3,  184".  He 
died  at  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  September  1(5,  1851. 

—  Sannillac.      12°,  pp.  112.     Boston,  1831. 

Whitman,  (B.,  Jr.)     The  Heroes  of  the  North  ;  or,  The  Battles  of  Lake 
Erie  and  Champlain.     8°,  pp.  24.     Boston,  1816. 

Whitman,  (S.  H.) 

Mrs.  Sarali  Helen  (Power)  Whitman  was  born  at  Providence,  R.  I.,  in  1803,  and  mar- 
ried, in  1828,  Jolin  W.  Whitman,  a  lawyer,  of  Boston.    .She  died  June  27,  1878. 

—  Edgar  Poe  and  His  Critics.      12°,  pp.  81.     New  York,  1860. 

Not  a  poem,  but  a  prose  vindication  by  Mrs.  Whitman  of  the  poet  to  whom  she  was 
betrotlied.  In  the  volume  has  been  left  by  some  one  a  number  of  newspaper  notices,  in  a 
small  envelope,  which  refer  to  the  work. 


310  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

Whitman,  (W.) 

Walter,  or  Walt  AVhitnian,  was  born  at  West  Hills,  N.  Y.,  in  1819,  and  has  occupied 
various  positions,— printer,  school  teacher,  editor,  a  clerk  in  the  Department  of  the  Inte- 
rior at  AVasliington,  etc.  The  most  opposite  opinions  prevail  with  regard  to  the  poems  of 
Wliitman.  W.  D.  O'Connor,  of  New  York,  "  boldly  pits  Walt  Whitman  not  only  against 
all  the  poets  of  the  day,  but  demands  for  him  place  and  rank  beside  the  great  masters, 
^schylus.  Homer,  Dante  and  Shakspeare.  He  proclaims  him  the  inspired  bard  and 
prophet  of  his  era  and  land."  On  the  other  hand,  Allibone  says  :  "  Public  opinion  says 
that  any  man  in  England  who  might  issue  such  senseless  trash  as  Walt  Whitman's  poems, 
wonld  be  considered  a  proper  inmate  for  an  asylum." 

—  After  All,  not  to  Create  Only.     Recited  on  opening  Fortieth  Annual 

Exhibition  of  American  Institute,  New  York,  September  7,  1871. 
12°,  pp.  vii,  24.     Boston,  1871. 

—  Drum  Taps.      12°,  pp.  24.     New  York,  1865. 

—  Leaves  of  Grass.     8°,  pp.  xii,  382.     Brooklyn,  1855. 

—  Same.     4°,  pp.  95.     Brooklyn,  1855. 

—  Same.     8°,  pp.  456.     Philadelphia,  1882. 

Whitney,  (Anne.)     Poems.     12°,  pp.  191.     New  York,  1859. 
Whitney,  (H.)    Ontova,  the  Son  of  the  Forest.  8°,  pp.  v,  128.  New  York. 

Whitney,  (Mrs.  A.  D.  T.)     Mother  Goose  for  Grown  Folks.     12°,  pp. 

111.     NeAv  York,  1860. 
Whitney,  (T.  R.) 

Thomas  K.  Whitney  was  born  in  (he  city  of  New  York  in  1804.  He  was  a  member  of 
Congress,  1855-57.    He  died  in  1858. 

—  Evening  Hours.      12°,  pp.  iv,  118.      New  York,  1844. 

—  The  Ambuscade.     12°,  pp.     83.     New  York,  1845. 

The  scene  is  laid  in  Florida,  near  the  Lake  0-kee-cho-be.  The  time  of  action  is  one 
day. 

Whittaker,  (C.)     Poems.     18°,  pp.  58.     Philadelphia,  1863. 
Whittier,  (J.  G.) 

John  Greenleaf  Whittier  was  born  at  Haverhill,  Mass.,  December  1~,  1807,  and  spent 
the  earlier  part  of  his  life  on  his  father's  farm.  He  removed  to  Boston  in  1829,  and  was 
engaged  as  a  journalist  in  that  city,  and  subsequently  in  Hartford.  In  1831  he  returned 
to  Haverhill,  and  was  occupied  with  agricultural  pursuits  for  several  years.  For  a  brief 
period  he  was  a  resident  of  Philadelphia,  where  he  edited  The  Pennsylvania  Freeman, 
a  strong  anti-slavery  paper.  In  1840  he  removed  to  Amesbury,  Mass.,  where  he  has  since 
resided.  (For  a  sketch  of  Whittier,  and  a  classification  of  his  works,  see  Allibone,  pp. 
2704-5.) 

—  Among  the  Hills,  etc.     16°,  pp.  100.     Boston,  1869. 

—  A  Sabbath  Scene.      12°,  pp.  29.     Boston,  1854. 

—  Hazel  Blossoms.      16,  pp.  133.     Boston,  1875. 

—  In  War  Time,  etc.      12°,  pp.  vii,  152.     Boston,  1864. 


AMEEICAN"    POETKY.  311 

Whittier,  (J.  G.) — Contimied. 

—  Lays  of  My  Home.      16°,  pp.  122.     Boston,  1843. 

—  Legends  of  New  England.      12°,  pp.  142.     Hartford,  1831. 

—  Maud.     With  Illustrations.     8°,  not  paged.     Boston,  18G7. 

—  Miriam,  etc.      1G°,  pp.  106.     Boston.  1871. 

—  Mogg  Megone.     32°,  pp.  69.     Boston,  1836. 

—  Moll  Pitcher,  etc.      18°,  pp.  44.     Philadelphia,  1840. 

—  National  Lyrics.     Sq.  16°,  pp.  104.     Boston,  1865. 

—  Poems.     12°,  pp.  180.      Philadelphia,  1838. 

—  Same.     Illustrated  by  H.  Billings.     8°,  pp.  viii,  384.     Boston,  1849. 

—  Same.     2  vols.     18°,  pp.  320,  303.     Boston,  1857.     Blue  and  Gold 

Series. 

—  Same.       Written    during    the    progress   of  the    Abolition    Question, 

between   the  years   1830  and    1838.       16°,   pp.  x,   103.     Boston, 
1837. 

—  Snow-Bound.      16°,  pp.  52.     Boston,  1866. 

—  Same.     With  Illustrations.     8°,  pp.  65.     Boston,  1868. 

—  Songs  of  Labor,  etc.      16°,  pp.  x,  127.     Boston,  1850. 

—  The  Bay  of  Seven  Islands,  etc.     12°,  pp.  85.     Boston,  1883. 

—  The  Chapel  of  the  Hermits,  etc.     16°,  pp.  vi,  118.     Boston,  1853. 

—  The    Literary  Remains  of  John    G.   C.    Brainard.       8°,    pp.    228. 

Hartford,  1832. 

Whittier  prepared  file  biograpliical  sketcli  of  Brainard,  who  was  born  at  Xew  Lon- 
don, Conn.,  in  October,  171)0,  graduated  at  Yale  in  1815,  and  practiced  law  at  Middletown, 
Conn.  He  died  September  20,  1828.  In  the  sketch  of  his  life,  his  biographer  places  a  very 
high  estimate  on  the  character  and  writings  of  his  fellow-poet. 

-^  The  Panorama,  etc.      16°,  pp.  vi,  141.     Boston,  1856. 

—  The  Penn.sylvania  Pilgrim,  etc.      16°,  pp.  xiii,  129.     Boston,  1872. 

—  The  Prayer  of  Agassiz.      12°,  pp.  6.     Cambridge,  1874. 

—  The  Tent  on  the  Beach,  etc.      16°,  pp.  vi,  172.     Boston,  1867. 

Whittlesey,  (S.  C.)     Heart-Drops.     8°,  pp.  341.     New  York,  1852. 

Whitwell,  (B.)     Phi  Beta  Kappa.     Harvard,  April  28,  1806.     8°,  pp. 
23.      Boston,  1806. 

Wigglesworth,  (M.) 

Michael  Wigglesworth  was  born  October  28,  1031,  probably  in  Yorkshire,  Eng.,  came 
to  this  country  in  1638,  graduated  at  Harvard  in  1051,  was  tutor  in  the  college  for  several 
years,  was  ordained  pastor  of  the  church  in  Maiden  in  1050,  and,  with  some  interruptions 
of  his  work  on  account  of  ill  health,  occupied  this  position  till  his  death,  .June  10,  1705. 


312  HAKIIIS    COLLECTION. 

WlGGLESWOnxH,  (M.) —  Continued. 

—  Meat  out  of  the  Eater ;  or,   Meditations  concerning   tlie  Necessity, 

End  and  Usefulness  of  Afflictions  unto  God's  Children,  All  tend- 
ing to  Prepare  them  For,  and  Comfort  them  Under,  the  Cross. 
Corrected  and  Amended  by  the  Author  in  tlie  year  1703.  The 
Fifth  Edition.     Sm.  12°,  pp.  143.      1717. 

In  beautiful  binding,  by  Bedford.  Of  tills  volume  Professor  Tyler  says  :  •'  Here  we 
have  simply  the  Christian  doctrine  of  comfort  in  sorrow,  translated  into  metrical  jingles. 
Witli  nearly  all  sensitiveness  to  literary  form  torpid  in  New  England,  and  with  devout 
feeling  warm  and  alert,  it  is  not  strange  that  this  clumsy  but  sympathetic  poem  should 
have  found  there  a  multitude  of  admirers.  It  was  first  published  probably  in  1669;  ten 
years  afterwards  it  had  passed  through  at  least  four  editions ;  and  during  the  entire  Colo- 
nial age  it  was  a  much-read  manual  of  solace  in  affliction.  And,  indeed,  it  is  such  poetry 
as  might  still  serve  that  purpose,  at  least  by  plucking  from  the  memory  a  rooted  sorrow, 
and  substituting  a  literary  anguisli  in  place  of  it." 

—  The  Day  of  Doom.     6th  Edition.     18°,  pp.  82.     Boston,  1715. 

For  an  account  of  this  "blazing  and  sulphurous"  poem,  as  Professor  Tyler  calls  it,  see 
"  History  of  American  Literature,"  vol.  ii,  pp.  27-35. 

—  Same.      7th  Edition.      18°,  pp.  104.     Boston,  1751. 

—  Same.     From  the  6th  London  Edition.      18°,  pp.  90.     Newburyport, 

1811. 

In  a  note  on  a  fly-leaf,  John  Ward  Dean  writes  :  "At  the  great  Are  in  Newburyport, 
May  31,  ISll,  the  year  this  volume  was  printed,  the  printing  office  and  bookstore  of  E. 
Little  &  Co.,  the  publishers,  were  burnt.  Probably  tlie  greater  portion  of  this  edition  was 
destroyed.  I  have  not  been  able  to  hear  of  more  than  two  copies  in  existence,  namely, 
the  present  copy,  and  one  belonging  to  James  Lenox,  Esq.,  of  New  York  City." 

—  Same.     From  the  6th  London  Edition.     24°,  pp.  95.     Boston,  1828. 

The  above  five  volumes  were  elegantly  bound  by  Francis  Bedford,  London,  and  are 
beautiful  specimens  of  that  accomplished  binder's  art. 

—  The    Church    Moves.       A    Curiosity  of    Literature    and   Theology. 

Extracts  from  "  Tlie  Day  of  Doom."  12°,  pp.  16.  Boston,  no 
date. 

Wilcox,  (C.) 

Carlos  Wilcox  was  born  at  Newport,  N.  H.,  October  22,  1794,  graduated  at  Middle- 
bury  College  in  1813,  and  at  Andover  in  1817.  He  was  settled  as  a  Congregational  minis- 
ter in  Pittstown,  N.  J.,  and  in  Huntington,  Newton  and  Norwalk,  Conn.  For  about  two 
years,  1824-26,  he  was  pastor  of  the  North  Congregational  Church,  Hartford.  He  died 
May  29,  1827. 

—  The  Age  of  Benevolence.     Book  I.     18°,  pp.  72.     New  Haven,  1822. 
Wilde,  (R.  S.)     Summer  Rose.     8°,  pp.  70.     Savannah,  1870. 

A  vindication  of  the  author  against  the  charge  of  plagiarism. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  313 

Wilder,  (A.  C.)     Poem.     Dedication  of  the  new  Town  Hall,  Leomin- 
ster, Mass.     8°,  pp.  2.     Fitchburg,  Mass.,  1852. 

"VYiLDMAN,  (H.  B.)       Beaver   Brook   Mountain,  etc.     8°,  pp.  24.     New 
York,  184  7. 

This  is  No.,1  of  Landscape  Views  of  New  England, 

—  Lays  from  the  Glen.      12°,  pp.  viii,  144.     New  York,  1855. 

WiLKiNS,   (G.    P.)     My    Wife's    Mirror.      A    Comedy.      12°,    pp.    16. 
New  York,  1856. 

Wilkinson,  (W.  C.) 

William  Cleaver  Wilkinson  was  born  at  Westford,  Vt.,  October  19,  1833,  graduated  at 
Rochester  University  in  1857,  and  the  Theological  Seminary  in  1859.  He  was  pastor  of 
the  AVooster  Place  Baptist  Chiu'ch,  New  Haven,  resigning  on  account  of  ill  health.  Sub- 
sequently he  was  settled  in  Cincinnati,  then  for  a  few  years  had  charge  of  a  private  school 
in  Tarrytown,  N.  Y.  In  1872  he  was  elected  Professor  in  the  Rochester  Theological  Semi- 
nary. Professor  Wilkinson  has  .contributed  many  able  articles  to  the  popular  periodicals 
of  the  day. 

—  Webster.     An  Ode.     4°,  pp.  122.     New  York,  1822. 

In  the  notes  Mr.  Wilkinson  makes  an  elaborate  defence  against  charges  brought 
against  the  moral  and  religious  character  of  Mr.  Webster. 

WiLLARD,  (Mrs.  E.) 

Emma  Hart,  a  descendant  of  Thomas  Hooker,  was  born  at  Berlin,  Conn.,  February  23, 
1787.  She  was  a  successful  teacher,  being  for  seventeen  years  Principal  of  a  Ladies'  Semi- 
nary at  Troy,  N.  Y.  She  was  the  compiler  of  school  books  which  had  a  large  circulation, 
and  was  distinguished  as  an  author.    She  died  at  Troy,  April  15,  1870. 

—  The  Fulfillment  of  a  Promise.     Sm.  16°,  pp.  124.      1861. 

WiLLARD,  (J.)      A  Poem  Sacred  to  the  Memory  of.      (Anon.)      12°,  pp. 
16.     Boston,  1757. 

WiLLARD,  (8.)     Hymns.      18°,  pp.  xvii,  128.     Greenfield,  Mass.,  1824. 

William  and  Ellen.     A   Poem   in  Three   Cantos.      (Anon.)     18°,  pp. 
158.     New  York,  1811. 

Williams,  (Mrs.  Catharine  R.) 

Mrs.  AVilliams  was  born  at  Providence,  R.  I.,  in  1790,  and  was  the  author  of  several 
works  in  prose  and  poetry. 

—  Original  Poems.      16°,  pp.  vii,  107.     Providence,  1828. 
Williams,  (J.) 

The  alias  of  Williams  was  Antliony  Pasijuin.  He  was  born  in  England  and  made  him- 
self notorious  on  account  of  his  scurrilous  attacks  on  men  and  things.  Lord  Kenyon,  in 
1797,  adjudged  him  "  a  common  libeller,"  and  Lord  Macaulay  speaks  of  him  as  "  a  malig- 


314  HARRIS    COLLECTION. 

"Williams,  (J.)  — Continued. 

nant  and  filthy  baboon"  and  "a  polecat."  He  emigrated  to  this  country,  where  he 
became  editor  of  a  Democratic  paper.  He  died  in  1818.  AUibone  mentions  thirteen  dis- 
tinct productions  of  liis  pen. 

—  The  Hamiltoniad.     8°,  pp.  104.     Boston,  no  date. 

Williams,  (Jenny  P.)  Scattered  Verses  and  Letters,  etc.  8°,  pp.  64. 
New  York,  1869. 

Williams,  (Mrs.  H.  Dwight.)  Voices  from  the  Silent  Land.  Lg.  8°, 
pp.  274.     Boston,  etc.,  1854. 

Williamson,  (A.  J.)  Poems  in  Three  Parts.  18°,  pp.  151.  Toronto, 
1836. 

Williamson,  (J.  B.)  Preservation;  or,  Tlie  Hovel  of  the  Rocks.  A 
Play.     8°,  pp.  vii,  75.     Charleston,  S.  C,  1800. 

Williamson,  (W.  C.)  Poem  before  Alpha  Delta  Phi,  25th  Anniversary, 
New  York,  24th  and  25th  June,  1857.  Lg.  8°,  pp.  15.  New 
York,  1858. 

Willis,  (Anna.)  Memoir,  in  which  are  several  of  her  Poems.  12°. 
New  York,  1854. 

Willis,  (N.  P.) 

Nathaniel  Parlcer  Willis  was  born  at  Portland,  Me.,  January  20,  1806,  according  to 
some  autliorities,  1807  according  to  others,  graduated  at  Yale  College  in  1827,  and  spent 
his  life  in  literary  pursuits  as  editor,  author,  etc.  He  died  at  his  beautiful  residence, 
"  Idlewild,"  near  Newburgh,  on  the  Hudson,  January  20, 1807.    (See  Allibone,  pp.  2756-57.) 

—  Bianca  Visconti.      12°,  pp.  108.     New  York,  1839. 

—  Melanie,  the  Usurer.      12°,  pp.  149.     New  York,  1839. 

—  Poem.     Delivered    before    the    Society  of  United    Brothers,   Brown 

University,   September   6,   1831,  etc.     -8°,   pp.    76.       New  York, 
1831. 

—  Poems.     Complete  Edition.     8°,  pp.  352.     New  York,    1850. 

—  Same.      18°,  pp.  ix,  370.     New  York,  1861. 

—  Sacred  Poems.     New  Mirror  Extra.     4°,  pp.  48,     New  York,  1843. 

—  Same.     32°,  pp.  126.     New  Y'ork,  1863. 

—  The  Lady  Jane.     New  Mirror   Extra.      No.   3.     4°.     New  York, 

1844. 


AMERICAN    POETRY.  315 

Willis,  (N.  P.)  —  Gontwued. 

—  Editor.     The  Legendary.     Vol.  I.     12°,  pp.  286.     Boston,  1<S28. 

In  this  volume  are  poems  by  Willis,  IMerpont,  Mellon,  and  otliors. 

—  Tortesa,  the  Usurer.     12°,  pp.  149.     New  York,  1839. 

—  Two  Ways  of  Dying  for  a  Husband.     8°,  pp.  245.     London,  1839. 

WiLMER,   (L.  A.) 

Lambert  A.  Wilmer  was  born  in  1805,  and  was  Cor  a  time  editor  of  Tlic  liattimore 
fiatnrday  Visitor,  and  afterwards  was  connected  with  The  Pevnsijlvanian.  He  died  at 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  December  21,  1863. 

—  Liberty  Triumphant.     12°,  pp.  vi,  34.     Philadelphia,  1853. 

—  Somnia.     12°,  pp.  23.     Philadelphia,  1848. 

—  The  Quacks    of  Helicon.     A    Satire.      18°,  pp.    54.     Pliiladelj)liia, 

1841. 

WiLMSHURST,  (Z.)     Liberty's  Centennial.     A  Poem  for  1870.     12°,  pp. 
22.     New  York,  1876. 

Wilson,  (A.) 

Alexander  Wilson  was  born  at  Paisley,  Scotland,  July  (i,  l~6fi,  and  worked  as  a  weaver 
for  several  years.  He  came  to  Philadelphia  in  171)4,  and  after  a  few  years  entered  upon  his 
great  work  as  the  American  Ornithologist,  to  which  he  devoted  the  remaining  years  of 
his  life.    He  died  at  Philadelphia,  August  23,  1813. 

—  The  Foresters.     12°,  pp.  100.     Philadelphia.  1804. 

A  poem  descriptive  of  a  pedestrian  journey  to  the  Falls  of  Niagara  in  the  autumn  of 
1804. 

—  Same.      18°,  pp.  104.     West  Chester,  Pa.,  1838. 

WiNCHELL,  (J.  F.)     The  Village  Poet;  or.   Dreams  of  the   Pound  Mas- 
ter.     12°,  pp.  12.     No  place,  no  date. 

Winchester,  (E.). 

Elhanan  Winchester  was  born  at  Brookline,  Mass.,  1751,  was  the  first  minister  of  the 
Baptist  church  in  Newton,  Mass.,  subse<iuently  became  a  preacher  of  Universal  Restora- 
tion.   Died  at  Hartford,  Conn.,  April,  17'.>7. 

—  Poems.     8°,  pp.  72.     Boston,  1773. 

—  The  Progress  and   Empire   of  Christ.      12°,   pp.   352.      l)r;ittl('l)oro, 

1805. 

WiNSLOW,  (B.  D.) 

Benjamin  Davis  Winslow  was  born  at  Boston  in  1815,  graduated  at  Harvard  in  1835, 
and  at  the  Episcopal  (ieneral  Theological  Seminary,  N.  V.,  in  IH.ts.  For  a  short  time  lie 
was  the  assistant  of  Dr.  aHerwanls  Bishoji  Doaiie,  at  St.  Mary's  church,  Biirllngtoii,  N. 
J.     lie  died  November  21,  1839,  at  the  early  age  of  twenty-four. 

43 


316  HAK1U8    COLLKC'iMON. 

WiNsi.ow,  (H.  D.)  —  Gontinuefl. 

—  Class  ]*(HMn,  HMWiml,  \9<'i^').      S°,  pp.  l>8.      Caml)ri(l,iie,  \>>:\'k 

—  Sermons  and  roctical  Rmnaiiis.      .S°,  pp.  .'UT.      New  York,  1<S41. 

WiNTKic  Sti'dies  in  THE  Country.     (Anon.)     l.S°,  pp.  4;j.     IMiiladelpliia, 
l.S5(j. 

Wisdom.      (Anon.)      18°,  pp.  IG.     riiiladeli)liia.  1787. 

—  Same.      18°,  pp.  22.     Newport,  1801. 

Winter,  (W.) 

William  Winter  was  born  at  Gloucester,  Mass.,  .Inly  15,  18:!(>,  graduated  at  the  Har- 
vard Law  .School,  and  was  admitted  to  the  Snflolk  bar.  He  has  devoted  liimself  to  literary 
pursuits,  as  poet,  literary  and  dramatic  critic,  lecturer,  etc.  His  poems  are  highly 
commended  by  Rev.  Dr.  A.  P.  Peabody. 

—  Poems.      12°,  pp.  143.     Boston,  ISr).'). 

The  author'.s  gift  to  W.  C.  Bryant,  January  1,  1855. 

Woi.coTT  (Sisters.     Eliza  and   Sarah  G.)      Poems.     18°,    pp.    174. 
New  Haven,  1830. 

Wolcott,  (R.) 

Roger  Wolcott  was  born  at  Windsor,  Conn.,  .January  4,  1070.  He  had  very  few  oppor- 
tunities for  .acquiring  an  education  in  that  early  period  in  the  colonial  history  of  Connecti- 
cut. As  soon  as  he  became  of  age  he  engaged  in  what  proved  to  be  successful  business, 
and  rose  to  positions  of  military  and  civil  trust,  in  his  native  State.  He  was  Governor, 
1751-54.  He  died  May  17,  1707.  A  descriptive  poem  of  his,  of  lifteen  hundred  lines,  has  the 
title,  A  Brief  Account  of  the  Ayeiici/  of  the  Honorable  John  Winthrop,  Jlsq.,  in  the  Court 
of  King  Charles  the  Second,  Anno  JJoin.  16(i'J,  where  he  obtained  a  Charter  for  the  Colony 
of  Connecticut. 

In  the  annotated  catalogue  of  the  John  Carter  Brown  Library,  vol.  iiii  p.  101,  the  Hon. 
.John  R.  Bartlett  has  the  following  note  :  "  It  is  stated  by  Mr.  Stevens,  in  his  'Nuggets,' 
that  Mr.  Dewey,  a  maker  of  woolen  cloth  in  Colchester,  Connecticut,  was  at  the  expense 
ol'ljrinting  this  book  on  the  condition  of  inserting  his  advertisement  at  the  end.  Indeed, 
the  worthy  clothier  intimates  as  nmcli  in  his  advertisement :  '  Having  been  something  at 
charge  in  promoting  tlie  Publishing  of  the  fore-going  Meditations,  do  here  take  the  liberty 
to  Advertise  my  Country  People  of  some  Rules  which  ought  to  be  observed  in  doing  their 
part,  that  so  the  Clothiers  might  be  assisted  in  the  better  performance  of  what  maybe 
expected  of  them,  that  the  cloth  which  is  made  amongst  us  may  both  Wear  and  Last 
better  than  it  can  possibly  do,  except  these  following  Directions  are  observed  by  us.'  " 
I'heu  tbilow  his  seven  rules. 

The  interest  in  the  book  centres  in  the  historical  poem  upon  Winthrop's  obtaining  of 
Charles  II.  the  Charter  of  Connecticut.  After  the  Restoration  the  "  Sages  of  Connecti- 
cut "  sent  Winthrop,  their  Governor,  to  England  to  present  an  address  and  to  "ask  the 
King  for  charter  liberties."  Not  long  after  his  arrival  in  London  it  was  announced  to 
Charles,  who  "  was  in  his  council  sat,"  that 

"An  Agent  from  Connecticut  doth  wait, 
With  an  Address  before  your  Palace  gate. 
Let  him  come  in,  says  Charles,  and  let  us  Hear 
What  has  been  done,  and  what's  a  doing  there." 


AMERICAN    POETKY.  317 

Woi.coTT,  (R.)  —  Continued. 

VVintlnop  iulmitted,  discharges  himself  in  homespun  numbers,  redolent  rather  of 
truth  than  poetry,  filling  some  sixty  pages,  in  which  he  recounts  the  national,  civil,  poli- 
tical and  military  history  of  the  colony  from  the  earliest  time  till  "Great  .Sassacus  and 
his  Kingdom  fell." 

The  copy  in  "  The  Harris  Collection  "  is  in  a  somewhat  dilapidated  condition.  It  was 
originally  bound  in  boards  covered  with  calf-skin.  A  quarter  of  the  second  covpr  is  gone, 
and  a  small  piece  of  the  leather  on  the  upper  right  corner  of  the  first  cover  has  been  torn 
off.  It  looks  as  though  it  had  been  "  through  fire  and  through  water."  There  is  no  title- 
page,  and  the  first  pages  eight  of  the  Preface  are  wanting.  At  the  top  of  page  I  is  written 
"  Henry  Barnard,  Hartford,  Conn.,  January  1,  1841." 

—  >Soine  Improvement  of  Vacant  Hours.      18°,  pp.   vi,    78.     Title-page 

gone.     Tlie  volume  published  in  New  London,  1725. 

Woman's  Wish  !  Against  Man's  Will.     (By  a  Buckeye.     Anon.)     12°, 
pp.  51.     New  York,  185'J. 

Women,  The  Two.     By   Delta.      (Anon.)      12°,    pp.    23.     Mihviiukee, 

1868. 

WoNUEKFUL  W.  P.  !  !,  The.      (Anon.)      18°,  pp.  8.     No  place,  no  date. 

Preface  dated  Concoril,  N.  H.,  February,  18(58. 

Wood,  (M.  PvLVA.)     Songs  of  tlic  Noon  and  Niglit.     1()°,  pp.  251.     New 
York,  1866. 

WooDMANSEE,    (J.)     The    Closing    Scene.     A    Vision.      16°,    pp.    21)6. 
Cincinnati,  1857. 

WooDWAHi),  (B.  W.)      A  Washington's  Birth-day  Poem.      Our  Coiuilry. 
February  22,  1862.      8°,  pp.  14.      Geneva,  N.  Y.,  1862. 

Wooi>WAKD,  (U.)     Slavery.      16°,  pp.  !J2.      Boston,  1856. 

WooDWOKTH,  (D.)      The  Pilgrim  Ftithers.      Stj,    18°,  pp.    15.      Albany. 
1843. 

WOODWOKTII,    (S.) 

Samuel  Woodworth  was  born  at  .Scituate,  Mass.,  .January  i:i,  J785.  Hy  trade  he  was  a 
lirinter.  In  1812  be  removed  to  Nt^v  York,  where  for  several  years  he  was  wlitor  an<l  pub- 
lisher. He  died  December '.I,  1842.  His  beautiful  poem  "  The  Hucket,"  has  given  him  a 
reputation  similar  in  character  to  that  of  .John  Howard  Payne,  the  author  of  "  Home, 
.Sweet  Home." 

—  Bea.sfs  at  Law.      12°,  pp.  104.      New  York,  1811. 

—  Bul)ble  and  Squeak,  etc.      12°,  pp.  104.      New  York.  1811. 

—  La  Fayette.      18°,  pp.  12.     Imperfect  copy. 

—  Melodies.      'liX  Edition.      18°,  pp.  288.      New  York,  182(;. 


318  r I A  H  K 1  s  (;  ( )  l  l  e  c  t  ion. 

WooowoKTH,  (S.)  —  Cont'uineil. 

—  New  Ilavoii.      A  Poem,  Satiricul  aud  tScutiiuental,  elc      12°,  pp.  34. 

New  York,  1809. 

—  Poems,  Odes.  Songs,  etc.      12°,  pp.  xii,  288.     New  York,  1818. 

—  Same.     2  vols.     18°,  pp.  238,  288.     New  York,  1861. 

—  Quartev-Day  ;  or.  The   Horrors  of  the  First  of  May.      12°,    pp.    35. 

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WooLF,  (B.  E.)  Don't  Forget  Yom- Opera  Glasses.  A  Farce.  12°,  pp. 
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WoKSTEK,  (C.  H.)  A  Poetical  Ei)istle  to  His  Excellency  George  Wash- 
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The  writer  says  that  "  the  sole  purpose  of  publishing  tliis  I'oem  is  for  the  charitable 
purpose  of  raising  a  few  guineas  to  relieve  in  a  small  measure  the  distresses  of  some  hun- 
dreds of  American  prisoners  now  suffering  confinement  in  the  gaols  of  England."    A  note 

signed  J T informs  the  reader  that  "  15,000  copies  of  this  Poem  were  sold  in  the 

city  of  London,  in  about  tliree  weeks,  at  Two  Shillings  and  Sixpence,  Sterling,  each,  and 
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WoRTHiNGTON,  (G.  F.)  Sacrcd  Poems.  3d  Edition.  18°,  pp.  170. 
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This  volume  of  poems  by  the  Kcv.  George  F.  Worthington  is  composed  of  selections 
from  volumes  which  the  author  had  previously  published  and  of  pieces  furnished  to  difier- 
ent  periodicals. 

—  Same.     4th  Edition.      18°,  pp.  197.     Baltimore,  1871. 
WoHK,  (H.  C.)     The  Upshot  Family.     A   Scro-Comic  Poem.      12°,  pp. 

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Wreath,  A,  fou  Home.     (Anon.)      18°,  pp.  86.     New  York,  1837. 
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Wkeath,  The  Grecian,  of  Victory.     16°,  pp.  119.     New  York,  1824. 

One  or  two  poems  in  the  volume. 

Wright,  (ElizaijetiiC.)     Lichen  Tufts.    12°,  pp.  228.  New  York,  1860. 
Wright,   (Frances.)     Altorf.      A  Tragedy.     12°,  pp.   83.      Philadel- 
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Natlianiel  H.  Wright  was  born  at  Concord,  Mass.,  in  178",  and  was  a  printer  by  trade. 
The  "  Kaleidoscope"  was  edited  by  him.     He  died  in  \x.i-i. 

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1817. 

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Mattliew  Bennett  VVynlioop,  a  printer  in  New  York . 

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Wythes,    (J.    H.)     The    Spirit    World.      1G°,    pp.    10(5.     Philadelphia, 
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Xlanties,  The;  or,  Forty  Thieves.     A  Burlesque.     8°,  pp.  41.     Phil- 
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Yahoo;  a  Satirical  Rhapsody.     8°,  pp.  xiv,  'JS.     New  York,  1833. 

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Yonkers,  Chronicles  of.     (Anon.)     8°,  pp.  23.     Yonkers,  1864. 
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Rev.  James  Alexander  Young,  M.  D.,  of  Laurel),  Md.,  wrote  under  the  signature  of 
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320  IIAIJKIS    COLLECTION. 

YouNU,  (C.  W.)       Greatuces  IvovJcwod  ;  or,  TIic  Ki.se  of  the  South,  etc. 
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■  The  dedication  is  "  To  tlie  Honorable  Anson  JJurlingiinie,  Envoy  Extraordinary  to  the 
Western  Nations  and  High  IMinister  Plenipotentiary  of  the  First  Chinese  Hank,  and  to  the 
3Iosl  Mighty  Mandarin,  Cliili-lvang  and  Sun-Cliiakee,  oftlit'  Second  Chinese  Ivank,  and  to 
the  Associated  High  Envoy  and  Mininters,  and  to  all  the  Representatives  of  the  Ancient 
and  Central  Flowery  Kingdom  who  compose  the  Chinese  Embassy,  in  fraternal  good  feel- 
ing this  volume  is  dedicated  by  an  American  Chinaman." 

Y'ouNG    Lady's   Book.       Selections    from  British    and    American    Poets. 
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Y'OUNG,  (W.) 

Pierre  Jean  de  JJeranger  was  born  of  humble  parentage  in  Paris,  August  l'.»,  1~S0.  He 
removed  to  Pe>ronnc  in  boyhood,  and  lived  until  he  was  seventeen  with  an  aunt  who  kept 
a  small  inn  in  that  place.  Here  he  learned  the  printer's  trade.  In  ]7'.)7  he  returned  to 
Paris,  where,  for  many  years,  he  had  a  hard  struggle  with  poverty.  In  180;i  lie  was  kindly 
aided  by  JAicien  Bonaparte,  and,  after  various  fortunes,  obtained  a  clerkship  in  the  Uni- 
versity of  Paris.  He  now  devoted  himself  much  to  literary  pursuits,  especially  to  the 
writing  of  songs.  His  political  sentiments,  boldly  published  in  his  poems,  brought  him 
into  collision  with  the  government,  and  more  than  once  he  was  fined  and  imprisoned. 
This  treatment  made  him  the  idol  of  the  people,  and  his  works  were  exceedingly  popular. 
His  election  to  the  National  Assembly,  by  the  electors  of  the  Department  of  the  Seine,  was 
an  evidence  of  the  high  esteem  in  which  he  was  held.  In  the  later  years  of  his  life  he 
resided  in  Passy.    His  death  occurred  in  July,  1857. 

Two  Hundred  of  the  Lyrical   Poems  of  Beranger  done  into  P^nglish 

Verse.      12°,  pp.  400.     New  Y'^ork,  1850. 

Zappone,  (A.)     Latin  Poems.      2d  Edition.     8°,  pp.  15.     Washington, 
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ZiEBEH,    (J.   L.)     Original   Firemen's   Songs,  etc.     18°,  pp.  72,     Phila- 
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